Southbay Burners !

Come on down to the Sunnyvale Performing Arts Center on Thursday October 16 and Friday October 17 to enjoy the Burning Man Film, “Voyage in Utopia”.


DOCUMENTARY SCREENING
“Burning Man: Voyage in Utopia”
Thursday October 16, 2008
And Friday October 17, 2008
8:00pm - Screening

General admission: $15.00
VIP reception: 30 $ starts at 6 30 PM.
Benefit Global Exchange
www.globalexchange.org/
Including complementary food, drinks and DVD.
Meet Film Maker Laurent Le Gall




SUNNYVALE, CA –

In celebration of the creative expression and highly evolved concept of Burning Man, Free Run Pictures, is screening their documentary, “Burning Man: Voyage in Utopia” an immersion into a journey towards a new world, at the Sunnyvale Performing Arts Center located at 550 E Remington Ave Sunnyvale, California on Thursday October 16 and Friday October 17 at 8 Pm.

Synopsis:
Every year, tens of thousands of participants migrate to the vacant heart of the Wild West, The Black Rock desert in Nevada to celebrate Burning Man. Without a doubt the experience is extreme in this lost world of huge heat, desert storms, no shade, and no shops. Everybody must survive by themselves by bringing their own food and hopefully their good spirit. These “burners” mix their urban culture with a certain type of improvised tribalism. According to Larry Harvey, the principals are simple. Radical self expression and creation are absolute. No money here. All is based on a gift economy!


Two Trailers of the film
www.freerunpictures.com/en/bur.../ba.htm

Three Clips of the film
www.freerunpictures.com/en/bur...ers.htm
Documentary 85 minutes.


Voyage in Utopia by the Black Rock Foundation.

blackrockarts.blogspot.com/2008....html


The purpose of this documentary, through an extraordinary voyage, is to analyze the conventions, commitments and syndromes of this event and how it became a movement. Carnaval, tribe or mystic retreat ? This big uproar for some will stay as a spiritual experience for the others. The film depicts the journey of artist David Best through the building of the “temple.” David Best dedicates this interactive artwork to the departed love ones and to the miracle of life. He’s offering his own creativity to the community. A clever anachronism, a miraculous idea and an exemplary symbol. The citizens of Black Rock City take ownership of it and write messages to their families, their friends, their departed love ones. The temple is full of tributes and becomes a sanctuary.
The frenzy turns into meditation in that lost desert where the world is reborn each year from its own ashes ...


“Voyage in Utopia” is a remarkable piece of storytelling. It does what our event is said to do. It evokes the inexpressible, it invites imagination to inhabit the unknown,” says Larry Harvey, founder of Burning Man.
Filmmakers/producers, Laurent Le Gall, Sandrine Di Rienzo and Gregory Martoglio, team-up to capture the true essence of Burning Man, a schizophrenic testimony of an American society where liberty, tolerance and individualism often live side by side with competition, totalitarianism and consumerism. Just as impressive, the original musical score composed by French recording artist, Nelly Mella, blends a marvelous melody of vocal chants and captivating rhythms.

Billed as one of the best films about Burning Man ever seen, “Voyage in Utopia,” is sure to inspire a society of cultural rebels and grab the hearts and souls of viewers worldwide.

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Purchase tickets online at www.frantix.net

More infos about the film
Www.freerunpictures.com
Www.burningman.com