Good story, Not enough for a whole film

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

"Burning Man: Beyond Black Rock" encourages audiences to take a look beyond the stereotypes you might know about the Burning Man Festival, grasping the social structures, the art and the messages that go along with the meeting of about 35,000 in the Nevada desert.Through a lot of footage from the camp, the documentary manages to catch quite an intimate image of the feeling, that leads many people to leave behind their usual lives and enjoy the freedom of Burning Man. Through interviews with the organizers as well as some volunteers, you also get a picture of the dimension, the infrastructure of the event has taken lately. I think that this is a good film to understand some of the spirit that is connected to the gathering. Personally, I would have also loved to hear some critical voices, maybe from people who live there and dislike the festival or from guests that didn't like their time, not because I want to set Burning Man in bad light, but because it would have helped to also understand how some people might have no place in such a new social order. Of course the movie cannot include more recent phenomenons such as commercialization or the splitting into different groups with kind of an elite-thinking.All in all I really enjoyed to learn more about a festival that is most often just briefly touched by the mass media. For everyone that wants to dive into the atmosphere of the Black Rock Desert, this is a documentary worth watching.

Burning Man has been a counter culture hub and talking point for going on a decade. In this documentary, the filmmakers attempt to breakdown and showcase what this festival, which some commentators in the film call a "proto-apocalpytic, hippy neo-pagon, freakfest," is all about. And with a claim like that, one can't help but wonder what "Burning Man" really IS all about.But the film goes to great lengths to showcase the people and events that have made the festival what it is over the last 10 or so years. Often spoken about as a spiritual journey, the festival seems like an event that this documentary invites you to understand, but more often than not, your curiosity invites you to explore. Though the documentary does a great job of depicting what Burning Man is, ultimately it leaves you with a yearning to experience the festival for yourself once the credits roll.

The Burning Man festival happens in late August of each year on the scorched playa of the western U.S.A. Over 30,000 revelers congregate to the temporary city of Black Rock, Nevada. This documentary leads us on a 365 day, behind the scenes, countdown to the burning of the man. "Beyond Black Rock" has intimate interviews with many of the keys involved, including the founder of Burning Man. The movie is an insiders view of this eccentric carnival of pyros, performers and artists. Sometimes, the films chronological structure competes with the implied spontaneity of the actual event but the 'burning man' wins in the end. We are left with the ashes everyone's spectacular efforts and a desire to return again the next year.

Of course, there isn't a focus on all the freakish wonderment that is Burning Man...that's not the point of the film. It never really was... or could *ever* do it justice if it chose to sample the art/culture/awesomeness and insanity, as one would speculate at the event. That's not how it is done at Burning Man.Its about the infrastructure, and the effort, and the rest of the very difficult things that go on behind the scenes. And though not exclusively fun...(as a fox newscast might cover the event) its definitely fun to watch... I enjoyed it very much and I look forward to watching it again. Especially since i saw it before going... it will be interesting to see it again after going.