Product Review

This Special Edition includes two movies, previously released on VHS as "The Burning Man Festival" and "Burning Man: Just Add Couches." Together, these documentaries provide a vivid tour of America's largest countercultural event, held each summer in the barren Nevada desert.

First, we tour the temporary city revelers build for a weeklong celebration, which culminates in the burning of a forty-foot tall human effigy. Celebrants dress in costumes, strut naked, dance in the nude, create religions, race in rocket-powered cars, shoot automatic weapons, or do whatever it is they don't get enough of at home.

In the second installment, the filmmakers return to Burning Man. "What this party really needs is a comfortable living room setting, where people can watch TV and drink beer," they proudly declare.

The group's hilarious misadventures building "the Couch Potato Camp" shed light on the experience of participating in this unique festival.

Exclusive DVD extras include 30 of the 1,000 recordings made in the Minute of Fame Booth at Burning Man.

From the Director

I'm pleased to finally release these two documentaries together, as they were meant to be seen.

About the Director Joe Winston, a filmmaker who lives and works in Chicago, is probably still best known for the TV series, "This Week in Joe's Basement," which transcended its venue on public access cable to become a critical and popular success. "Joe's Basement" won two local cable TV awards and was featured on NBC's Today and Jenny Jones shows, MTV's Day in Rock, BBC's World of Wonder and PBS's Image Union and The 90s. Joe also has a couple of sho eboxes filled with very strange fan mail.

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