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With the annual Burning Man conference underway, now is a good time to revisit what producer and editor Mike Hedge calls a “participatory documentary,” As the Dust Settles. Shot at the festival, the doc uses a number of collaborating directors (Roger Ingraham, Katheryn McGaffigan, Jamie Dee, Jeremy Lubman, and Tarynn Wiehahn) and generally superb cinematography to capture, says Hedge, “an intimate glimpse of what we discovered about love, the environment, the gift economy, reality, art, creativity, and ourselves.” As the Dust Settles is available on a wide variety of streaming and download platforms. As a special bonus, Hedge has provided […]...

With the annual Burning Man conference underway, now is a good time to revisit what producer and editor Mike Hedge calls a “participatory documentary,” As the Dust Settles. Shot at the festival, the doc uses a number of collaborating directors (Roger Ingraham, Katheryn McGaffigan, Jamie Dee, Jeremy Lubman, and Tarynn Wiehahn) and generally superb cinematography to capture, says Hedge, “an intimate glimpse of what we discovered about love, the environment, the gift economy, reality, art, creativity, and ourselves.” As the Dust Settles is available on a wide variety of streaming and download platforms. As a special bonus, Hedge has provided […]...

By Mike Hedge

Every summer, deep in the Nevada desert, a temporary city is created by tens of thousands of people. This week-long celebration is known as Burning Man. Radical participation, gifting, self-reliance, and self-expression, are a few of the core principles.

After many years of post production, we have finally finished our huge participatory documentary, As The Dust Settles, […]...

We’ve featured the work of filmmaker Mike Hedge on the site before, and he’s just forwarded the trailer for his “participatory documentary” shot at Burning Man, As the Dust Settles. It premieres next week at the Byron Bay Film Festival in Australia. From the site: Following a simple rule of working on this participatory documentary 50% of the time, we captured our life-changing experiences at the annual arts festival held in northern Nevada, known as Burning Man. Our documentary reveals an intimate glimpse of what we discovered about love, creativity, community, the environment, the art, the gift economy, and reality. …...

A couple of years ago filmmaker Mike Hedge did a great photo-compilation video out of SXSW and now he’s emailed his list with a new video that’s a diary of his 2010. I like this idea. Rather than my seldomly-updated journal something like this would actually make me want to revisit my own musings on the past. Watch “Every Day is Spectacular” here.

Poland-based commercial director and cinematographer who goes by the nickname Macgregor (real name, Miguel de Olaso) has released a teaser trailer for an upcoming independent aci-fi action film titled Kore. First discovered by Twitch, who compares the futuristic cityscape to "the world of Ridley Scott's Bladerunner as filtered through the grime of Neill Blomkamp's District 9." There isn't much more information on the project other than "coming some day". Four Eyed Monsters Associate Producer Mike Hedge is listed as a producer on the project. I'm guessing the teaser trailer is a test for an idea Macgregor has for a feature. I'd love to see it someday. Watch the teaser trailer embedded after the jump. I've also included some of Macgregor's commercial work. Update: /Film readers have noticed that the voiceover/score is borrowed from the trailer for the video game Prototype. I don't believe the two projects are related.