Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Tapeworm Video Dist
• VHS Release Date: May 18, 1999
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6305419574
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #420,074 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

"Bijou Cafe," "Hype" Online Magazine - April 16, 1999

Bijou Café "Hype" Online Magazine - April 16, 1999 "Free form and all the more exciting because of it, Into the Heart of Fire: At the Burning Man Festival is not a re-discovered 'making of' of The Wicker Man but rather a genuine documentary. Recorded by "two guys with camcorders" who just "captured what they saw" (as the humble intro scrawl tells us), it is nonetheless a very slickly produced bit of underground videomaking. Imagine Mardis Gras in the desert. Actually, imagine Fellini making that film. Fellini's Burning Man. Ah, si. Perfecto. The documakers' fluid, handheld camerawork give the entire proceedings an unearthly feeling of constant but dreaded expectancy. What the hell is going to enter this long, hand-held shot next? The camera suddenly rounds a tent and finds first a belly dancer, then a strange box theater play featuring weird geeks doing ham radio broadcasts, and finally rests on a guy inside a geodesic dome he's built that glows at night and allows him to rotate 360 in any direction while stationary. See the theme? Neither do I. And that's why Fellini comes to mind. The celebration of the fantastic in the everyday is clearly at least one intent of the documakers based on its surreal charm.

Product Description

Join us for a video odyssey into the realm of the Burning Man Festival in Nevada's Black Rock Desert. For one week a year, this vast expanse of sun baked earth becomes the sixth largest population point in the entire state. Burning Man is a celebration of individuality, free expression and performance art. Participation is mandatory!... No Rules, No Turning Back, No Fear...

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Customer Reviews

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A hallucinatory experience, June 28, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Into the Heart of Fire at the Burning Man Festival [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The is a tale of three cameramen and what they experienced at the largest freeform artistic expression fair in the world. This may not be a good choice for Mormons or devout Religous Right Christians, there is a lot of nudity. Full frontal, full backal, full everything. The film starts with thier drive out into the Nevada Dessert and chronicals their experience. This film is wild. From nighttime primal drum circles and techno beat discos to tours of the local nude hot springs, this film captures the feeling of going to the Burningman Festival. Among the highlights are: a giant pagan ritual/opera with at least a hundred dancers fire and music; water nymphs dancing at the hot springs; the Wild Man (you have to see him to understand); the Burn itself; and the people. After viewing this tape I felt wrung out, like I had been there in the dessert myself.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars more of a video collage than documentary, March 29, 2000

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Espressobuzz "Espressobuzz" (Bellevue, WA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Into the Heart of Fire at the Burning Man Festival [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Mix of lots of non-chronological video of lots of people doing whatever they came to BM to do. Misc brief interviews with participants & Larry Harvey (founder). Audio is a little quiet/loud. Video is from both day and night. Good sampler of the people and art.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Into the Heart of Fire: At the Burning Man Festival - review, June 18, 2001

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C.W. Moss (Mesa, AZ United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Into the Heart of Fire at the Burning Man Festival [VHS] (VHS Tape)

"Into the Heart of Fire: At the Burning Man Festival " was a hallucinogenic trip! And I mean that in a good way! I watched the film twice in one evening! The amateur quality of the film added to the carnival-like atmosphere of the whole event. The people at Burning Man are beautiful and bizarre. They are also naked. The event is Mardi Gras and Woodstock all rolled into one. It is also an Expo for the work of artists, engineers, and designers. This film was the next best thing to an evening on Psilocybin mushrooms. It is now my mission to experience Burning Man first hand.