Desolation Center
by Various Artists
205
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DVD Details
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 17, 2020
- Originally Released: 2018
- Label: Passion River
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Featured: | Sonic Youth, Minutemen, Meat Puppets, Redd Kross, Einstürzende Neubauten & Swans | |
| Directed by | Stuart Swezey |
Entertainment Reviews:
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TOMATOMETER
Total Count: 16
Offers a fascinating glimpse at the emergence of a phenomenon that was, back then, simultaneously modest and radical, and that has now, in the era of #Beychella, become a part of mainstream culture.
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Hollywood Reporter
It's not fair to hold isolated events responsible for the things they inspire, which is why it's okay to revel in Stuart Swezey's documentary Desolation Center even knowing the events it relates led to Burning Man, and Burners ruin everything.
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SF Weekly
Rating: 3/5 --
Desolation Center illuminates a short-lived but absolutely momentous time when the Mojave beckoned, free of charge and front-loaded with anarchic artistic overload.
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Austin Chronicle
Swezey's film is a historical record of this short-lived time and this singularly L.A. scene.
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Los Angeles Times
Swezey's film confirms that his scene's flame is still burning.
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Chicago Reader
Tells the story of a turbulent era that may have been the counterculture's last hurrah before it was hopelessly commodified.
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The DC Line
What is most impressive about this doc is that there is footage of [the entire event].
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FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
Product Description:
The inspiration behind multiple festivals like Coachella and Burning Man, Desolation Center is a non-fiction film that combines footage, black-and-white photos, and testimonies to depict the first performances of art, punk rock music, and pyrotechnics in the Californian desert. Directed and written by Stuart Swezey.
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