The Temple Builder (2006)

The Temple Builder, 2006 (55 mins)
By Dearbhla Glynn and Aprile Blake

Courtyard opens at 2:30pm with Interactive Installations and Art Installations. Screening at 5:00. Q&A immediately following.

An intimate look at the life and work of artist David Best. Best is widely known for the ornate temples he and his crew built for the Burning Man festivals and in the cities of San Rafael and Detroit. These communal art projects, Best explains, are "tributes for people we have all lost." With his use of such themes as "giving back" and the creation of "public art".

The artist uses personal narratives to highlight tenet's that are central to his life's work. Informative and entertaining the film features interviews with the artist's family, temple crews as well as presenting stunning footage of Best's mobile art and temple projects. WATCH TRAILER HERE

VIEW THE Q&A HERE

(In 3 parts)

Q&A following the film with Artist, David Best. David is an internationally-renowned American sculptor. He is well-known for building immense temples out of recycled wood sheets (discarded from making toys and other punch-outs) for the Burning Man festivals, where they are then burnt to the ground in a spectacle of light and heat.

And film editor, Rob VanAlkemade. Rob has been a director, producer, cinematographer, sound recordist and editor on a variety of documentary and broadcast productions since 1995, including the 2006 short film Preacher With an Unknown God which won a Sundance Jury Award, and the 2007 feature What Would Jesus Buy?, about saving Christmas from the Shopocalypse. Rob is currently directing the feature doc Training for the Apocalypse, which won a Pacific Pioneer grant in Nov, 2010.