Confessions Of A Burning Man

"I think Burning Man is the '60s done right," opines a blissed-out resident of Black Rock City, Nev., which for less than one week every year becomes the state's third-largest metropolis. The rest of the year it's a deserted playa — a dry lakebed — ringed by mountains and baking in the sun until the next Burning Man festival draws upwards of 25,000 pilgrims in search of art, fun and a sense of alternative community. The four first-time pilgrims used by directors Paul Burnett and Unsu Lee to represent Burning Man participants represent a striking range of age, race and economic class — a larger range than the festival itself draws, to judge by the overw...