The Burning Man Festival is a temporary arts colony that sets up in the Nevada desert every year. People come from all over the world to the barren alkali flats outside Reno to be a part of the Festival, which is based on one rule: No Spectators.

Artists put up pieces ranging in size and intensity from single sculptures to entire environments. The hot desert climate leads to a casual clothing-optional environment, with toplessness the norm and total nudity common and uncommented-upon. The story and history of the entire Burning Man Project can be accessed at www.burningman.com

The nudity —mostly female— at the 1998 Festival has ben amply recorded in these two tapes. Vol. 1 focuses mostly on people walking around and touches peripherally on the artistic expressions, mostly at the end of the tape. Vol. 2 focuses on people interacting with one another —usually in communal showers— and shows the end of the festival, with the traditional burning of many of the structures and art pieces, and naked revelers dancing in the light of the fire.

Digital camerawork is mostly crisp with occasional alkali-dust induced dropouts. No sexual content, and that's a good thing, because some of the revelers pictured naked in the desert probably can't buy cigarettes.

Put this in the same place you put the river revelry tapes, unless you have a Performance Art section.