Confessions of a Burning Man

Name: Confessions of a Burning Man
Genre: Documentary
Released: February 27, 2004
Duration: 83 min
Rating: 37

2004

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Windline Films | Release Date: February 27, 2004

Summary: This documentary celebrates the art and remarkable community of Burning Man.

Director: Paul Barnett and Unsu Lee

Genre(s): Documentary

Runtime: 83 min

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TV Guide Magazine Maitland McDonagh

Burnett and Lee's graceful, sympathetic documentary focuses on participants who embody Burning Man's ideals without being blind to the opportunists and party animals it inevitably attracts. Read full review

Kevin Crust

The four individuals' narratives are not always that compelling and make for a film best experienced on a strictly sensory level. Let the images wash over you and enjoy. Read full review

Jack Mathews

Essentially a home movie, nicely shot but dull. Read full review

Judith Lewis

The film reduces a complex social environment to a trifling spectacle of fakery, peopled by faux-hemians who offer up trivial confessions as if they're earth-shattering. Read full review

Megan Lehmann

Falls far short of capturing the hedonistic spirit of this ephemeral art community. It's more like a routine home video with arty pretensions. Read full review

Stephen Holden

Too lazy and too loosely structured to accomplish much besides conveying some vivid physical impressions. There is no narrator, and the structure that exists is clouded by the new-age mumbo-jumbo of eight principal commentators. Read full review

Dennis Harvey

This not particularly well shot/organized feature isn't very engaging on the human level, either. Read full review

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JimM.

Jun 22, 2007

The music is very good. The video people are too pretty and self absorbed. The taxi driver and the black guy who just got out of jail are the only two interesting people. The story jumps around too much. Yes, there is a lot to capture at Burning Man and your mind does jump around. But the The music is very good. The video people are too pretty and self absorbed. The taxi driver and the black guy who just got out of jail are the only two interesting people. The story jumps around too much. Yes, there is a lot to capture at Burning Man and your mind does jump around. But the pace of this movie just wasn't right.… Expand

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