Voyage in Utopia (2007)

Voyage in Utopia, 2007 (83 mins)
By Laurent Le Gall

Courtyard opens at 3pm with Interactive Installations and Art Installations. Screening at 7:30. Q&A immediately following. RAFFLE DRAWING for a Burning Man ticket and other wonderful schwag after Q&A.

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!

With a strong emphasis on founder Larry Harvey and temple artist David Best, this film about Burning Man 2002 expresses the scale and power of the Burning Man experience. Superb cinematography and editing are combined to make this is one of the most moving Burning Man videos ever produced.

“Voyage in Utopia is a remarkable piece of story telling. It does what our event is said to do : it evokes the inexpressible, it invites imagination to inhabit the unknown”.
- Larry Harvey

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Q&A following the film with Film Makers, Laurent Le Gall. Born in Brest, Finistère, France.
As a child, he consumed the westerns shown every tuesday evening on FR3, without any moderation. John Wayne and Gary Cooper became very good buddies. It was decided, I wanted to tell stories. 1996 was my first trip in San Francisco, followed by many others. "One day I would live here!".  Here I met my wife Sandrine Di Rienzo, a French Italian based in the US and president of the world music label Tinder Records. Lhassa, our son, was born in San Francisco. Tinder records, World without boundaries. I discovered the  World Music industry and toured with many African artists. I carried out the portraits of various artists such as Idrissa Diop. With him we went to discover Senegal .

And Sandrine Di Rienzo. Sandrine is president of world music label, Tinder Records.

And Gregory Martoglio, Co Cinemetographer and Editor.

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