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As described previously here on the blog, I had the fortunate opportunity to go to the magnificent Burning Man Festival this past summer (of which I have these thoughts). A tv-crew followed us and have now edited the footage into a series of programs that have aired through November 2012 - see them here.
The idea of travelling to Nevada, US, to participate in Burning Man was to collect inspiration to bring back to Denmark and to all our ventures, including the Platform4-project. We travelled in a group of 7 people consisting of 5 representatives from Aalborg University, myself and my friend and fellow executive director in Platform4, Kristian Ravn-Ellestad.
To document this process we were also joined by a camera-crew from Danish TV-station TV2Nord, who were with us the whole time filming and subsequently interviewing all of us. All the tons of footage has now been edited into a 26-minute documentary that aired in it's full length version on November 29, and in a two-part edited version of 2 x 11-minute segments on November 22 and November 29 respectively. All these programs are now available to view online:
Full length version (26 minutes):
Two-part shorter version, Part 1 (11 minutes):
Two-part shorter version, Part 2 (11 minutes):
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Additionally, the production company Samurai film, who did all the footage for TV2Nord recently released this short 4-minute film titled Ode To Black Rock City, based partly on the footage of our group. All truly stunning work.
Ode to Black Rock City from Anders Christian Rasmussen on Vimeo.
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Finally, TV2-Nord also invited me, Kristian, Claus Rosenstand (member of the Platform4 Advisory Board and also part of the Burning Man delegation) and Tonny S. Thorup (Platform4's co-founder and Chief of Aalborg Municipality's Business Department) to discuss Platform4, Burning Man, innovation and the future in 30-minute debate program titles "Til Sagen" (translates into "Let's Get To It"). The show aired on November 29 - see it here:
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UPDATE (DEC 19, 2012):
Ode To Black Rock City, as embedded above, was mentioned in today's official Burning Man newsletter, "The Jackrabbit Speaks". The caption is beautiful (and, in my opinion, very well deserved, it is a magnificently well made film):
"ODE TO BLACK ROCK CITY"
"Ode to Black Rock City" Perfectly Captures the Spirit of Burning Man (this one made us cry).
This video comes to us from Denmark. The video's creation was led by filmmaker Anders Christian Rasmussen and is a synopsis of a longer piece which aired in full on the Danish public television station, TV2 Nord (which is to say, we can probably expect to see more Danes on playa next year). Wonderful work, Anders and crew!
Watch and enjoy http://vimeo.com/54809341
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