A desert fever dream where 90 photographers capture chaos, art, and dust-covered transcendence.
Drama in the Desert: The Sights and Sounds of Burning Man is a full-color book (which includes a DVD) based on the captivating images of Holly Kreuter, with contributions from an additional 90 Burning Man participants, offering the reader a taste of the Burning Man experience. The DVD includes an original Score by Sean Abreu, seven slideshows featuring 560 Kreuter photographs and video interviews with 8 artists including Larry Harvey.
Cinematography
560 photographs that make dust look like glitter.
Score
Sean Abreu's original music: desert drone meets transcendent bangers.
Production
90 participants' perspectives = chaotic authentic collage.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released when Burning Man was still semi-underground, this captures the festival before Silicon Valley billionaires gentrified the playa with air-conditioned yurts.
Holly Kreuter's 560 photographs span multiple years of early Burning Man, making this essentially the official visual archive of when the event was actually dangerous and weird.
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