Oliver Bonin
Dust & Illusions – 30 Years of History of Burning Man Festival

Single screening / Slovenian premiere
THU, 26 February 2015 at 8 pm
The Old Power Station (Stara mestna elektrarna), Ljubljana

Language: English with Slovenian subtitles

In the framework of the cycle of screening events Akcija! and programme Masters & Servers

Documentary film Dust & Illusions by Olivier Bonin explores the thirty years of history of the BURNING MAN EFSTIVAL. Burning Man is a week-long annual event that began in San Francisco’s Baker Beach in the mid-1980s and then migrated to the Black Rock Desert in northern Nevada. It takes its name from the ritual burning of a large wooden effigy. The event is described as an experiment in community, art, radical self-expression, and radical self-reliance and it is the largest cultural and art event in North America. From the renegade spirits of the 1970s in San Francisco, to the multi-million dollar business the event has become, the film looks at this necessary and explosive evolution.

Dust and Illusions is the only worthwhile documentary about Burning Man. Most are navel-gazing, utopian affairs.

The screening at the Old Power Station introduced Slovenian audiences to the topics discussed by John Law, one of the founding members of the Burning Man festival, in his lecture, which took place as part of the Networked Disruption Seminar in March in Kino Šiška.