Cert TBA
90 mins
BBFC advice: TBA
Last year, for my 50th birthday, Mrs W, Master W, Miss W and myself went to the Glastonbury festival.
I had wanted to go for many years and it met my expectations in every way.
The biggest surprise was how much we enjoyed the first two days when very few stages were open.
Indeed, Glastonbury's early salvos are in a hippy/folksie area known as Green Fields, going back to its roots of more than 40 years ago.
We loved it there, lying around listening to music, watching weird speciality acts and even taking part in such endeavours as trying to charge my phone by pedalling a static bike.
But, while I enjoyed being among the free spirits, I cannot say that the rest of my life fits in too well with being a hippy.
Nevertheless, I have empathy with the type of people who have developed Burning Man - a series of camps which take over a chunk of the Black Rock Desert in Nevada.
The camps are based around art installations, some very strange performances and some symbolic moments surrounding fire.
The event has strict guiding principles - radical inclusion (acceptance of strangers), gifting, no commercial activity, self-reliance, participation, self-expression, communal activity, immediacy, civic responsibility and leaving no trace.
Its founders are a close-knit team and all but one still work on the event which has become their way of life.
Nowadays, Burning Man has a limit of 50,000 tickets and Steve Brown and Jessie Deeter's film follows two paths - the creation of an annual Burning Man and the event's chequered history.
Its interviews are, in the main with its organisers who nod towards its problems as well as bathing in its perceived brilliance.
It is a documentary which had me intrigued but I wanted to know more about the folk who spend a week of their annual holidays buying into hippy or even anarchist ideas.
What inspires so many to follow the Burning Man ethos?
Laughs: none
Jumps: none
Vomit: none
Nudity: yes
Overall rating: 6/10