Trama

Joe Winston's award-winning account of America's largest countercultural event.

Thousands of people gather each summer in the Nevada desert to erect and burn a 40-foot tall human effigy. A temporary city rises from the dust and 100-degree heat, and a sort of anarchist society emerges. Festivalgoers strut naked, dance in the mud, create theatrical "Theme Camps," invent religions, shoot automatic weapons at stuffed animals, or whatever else they don't get enough of at home.—Joe Winston

This documentary film gives a slightly jaundiced guided tour of the 1995 Burning Man Festival in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, where thousands of revelers gather, build a temporary community, party like rock stars for a week, and burn a forty-foot tall human effigy.