Spark: A Burning Man Story

Ahhhh, almost like being there
The movie was just released on 8/16/13, just in time for those of us who could not attend the 2013 Burn. I woke in the wee hours of the morning, homesick for the playa and the Burn happening just a few hundred miles away as I type. I watched the entire movie and never went back to sleep, now feeling that oh-so-familiar, sleep deprived state that I will carry into the workday as one more reminder of what I am missing on the playa right now.

Now, if the film makers could just make the following additions the documentary would be perfect: Smellovision for the bacon sizzling in the morning, wafting out of some nearby camp and into your nostrils as you awake fuzzy headed from a neon bright night of fun. Heatovision for the noonday sun that turns tents/RVs into hot houses and unprotected skin into red inflamed cells. Windovision for the convectively heated air mass that sweeps over the playa each afternoon and night, creating white outs and sometimes near hurricane force...

Great film, I loved it! Wow! Very highly recommended.
I've always been curious about Burning Man. Watching SPARK was like being there -- the bacchanalian revelry, colorful people, brilliant costumes and incredibly designed 100' high buildings, giant statues -- moving parts of this week long party with soul in the outer reaches of the Nevada desert.

Multiple camera crews on the ground and in the air capture Burning Man by night and day. We see one scene of eerie, surreal beauty after another, and the original music is awesome. This film captures the true spirit of Burning Man -- you are there.

There are plenty of laughs as well. Spark follows two ordinary people, young artists who became extraordinary when they took the step of committing themselves to contributing major art pieces to Burning Man.

The film includes footage of the first Burning Man on a San Francisco beach in the 1980's, shows a Board meeting in crisis mode in 2012, and follows the construction of Burning Man in 2012 on the 'Playa', before...

Fantastic!!
I've always been really curious about what goes on during Burning Man and before this documentary I really didn't know anything about the event. This movie opened my eyes to all of the mind blowing things that go on in Black Rock City during this short time period. I am really glad that I watched this movie, I might even try to go to Burning Man in the future!

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