{"id":128830,"date":"2013-08-23T03:29:49","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T10:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=128830"},"modified":"2013-08-22T21:31:27","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T04:31:27","slug":"spark-a-burning-man-story-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2013\/08\/23\/spark-a-burning-man-story-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Spark: A Burning Man Story Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Title: Spark: A Burning Man Story<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Directors: Steve Brown, Jessie Deeter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Burning Man, an annual week-long event held in the Black Rock Desert of northern Nevada, would seem to be a great subject for a documentary. After all, the festival &#8212; which was originally envisioned as a utopian getaway and rebuke to the constrictive nature of modern life&#8217;s duties and norms &#8212; now draws in more than 50,000 participants, nominally known as &#8220;Burners,&#8221; each year. It&#8217;s become a pop culture touchstone in and of itself, in the process spawning more than 50 regional festivals around the globe &#8212; all based on the same 10 operating principles, which include radical inclusion, participation, decommodification and self-reliance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Spark: A Burning Man Story&#8221; wants to be that definitive nonfiction offering, trying to impart the event&#8217;s origin story and history. Co-directed by Steve Brown and Jessie Deeter, the film paints in vivid colors, undeniably, but comes up short in delivering a coherent vision statement.<\/p>\n<p>First, what &#8220;Spark&#8221; gets right: it captures the amazing can-do spirit and energy of almost all of its participants, from its San Francisco-based planners (yep, sorting out the infrastructure is a year-round thing) to its artistic-minded attendees. Spotlighting everything from drag costumes and huge projects (a five-building, #Occupy-style wooden mock-up of Wall Street excess overseen by an ex-Marine who goes by the name Otto von Danger) to the burning of a 35-foot tall titular sculpture that closes each festival, &#8220;Spark&#8221; lights up the imagination.<\/p>\n<p>Other parts of the film are wildly interesting, too, because they dig into the organizational minutiae of trying to tame and shape this developing beast. Interviewees honor Brown and Deeter&#8217;s effort by engaging in some honest, substantive, philosophically rooted arguments regarding the festival&#8217;s botched 2012 ticket lottery system following a sellout the previous year, as well as larger issues like condoning &#8220;curated&#8221; or packaged tour experiences seemingly at odds with its participatory ethos and roots.<\/p>\n<p>Still, as beautiful as a lot of the captured spectacle is, &#8220;Spark&#8221; could also benefit from cleaner through lines, and certainly a more rigid and structured chronological telling of the festival&#8217;s development. All of the co-founders are interviewed, but Brown and Deeter assemble to movie in a jumbled fashion. And while there are vague hints of a particularly chaotic and dangerous 1996 festival, the film doesn&#8217;t root down into the specifics in a gratifying enough manner. &#8220;Spark&#8221; seems torn between behind-the-scenes perspective and a more experiential document &#8212; something 2009&#8217;s &#8220;Dust &amp; Illusions&#8221; delved deeper into, chronicling the event from attendees&#8217; perspectives. As such, it loses steam and its hold. There&#8217;s a &#8220;Spark&#8221; here, but Brown and Deeter&#8217;s film doesn&#8217;t truly catch fire for the layperson.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> For more information on the film, which is available across VOD platforms in addition to its theatrical engagements, visit www.SparkPictures.com. Or check out the film&#8217;s trailer here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/app.streamsend.com\/c\/19038095\/5183\/jXTy6ON\/pvOe?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DJbSUyYXH8hs\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JbSUyYXH8hs<\/a>. For information on the festival itself, meanwhile, visit www.BurningMan.com.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Technical: B-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Story: C<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Overall: C-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Written by: Brent Simon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Spark-A-Burning-Man-Story-Movie.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Spark-A-Burning-Man-Story-Movie.jpg\" alt=\"Spark A Burning Man Story Movie\" title=\"Spark A Burning Man Story Movie\" width=\"600\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-128923\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Spark-A-Burning-Man-Story-Movie.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Spark-A-Burning-Man-Story-Movie-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Spark-A-Burning-Man-Story-Movie-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Spark: A Burning Man Story Directors: Steve Brown, Jessie Deeter Burning Man, an annual week-long event held in the Black Rock Desert of northern Nevada, would seem to be a great subject for a documentary. 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