The Philadelphia Film Society will be screening the documentary Dust & Illusions February 3rd at the World Cafe Live at 7:00 pm. For those of you not familiar with the documentary, it focuses on the Burning Man festival which takes place every year in the Nevada Desert and documents the festival from it’s inception as a gathering of a group of friends in San Francisco, to now where it has grown so much some have begun to wonder if it still it has lost touch with its roots.
From IMDB: “Once a year, on a vast Nevada lake bed surrounded by mountains and for the past 20 years, the Burning Man festival brings together tens of thousands of people who are attracted by the festival’s promise of seven days of de-commodification, community, artwork, and revelry. But increasingly, many question whether Burning Man’s mainstream appeal threatens – or even upends – the festival’s utopian vision. Through a series of in-depth interviews of the festival’s founders, organizers, and participants, DUST & ILLUSIONS traces the festival’s history, while examining whether the festival is a victim of its own success. The documentary also offers a new perspective about the event, and looks at our ability as human beings to create new forms of community in the 1st century.”
Dust & Illusions has been a hit on the festival circuit, and it hits Philadelphia this Wednesday. Ticket info here.
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