BurnerSphere
Film Festival: March 5 – 8, 2026
Cinema, Reimagined as Community
Free for All on PC, MAC, some VR headsets, YouTube and Zoom!
Festival Opening Party: March 5, 6pm Pacific
A Gift to the Community
The BurnerSphere Film Festival takes place inside BurnerSphere, an official virtual Burning Man experience, and is offered as a gift to the global Burner community. The entire festival is free to attend. Films and events are experienced together in immersive, explorable spaces shaped by shared principles and participation. The festival invites everyone to gather, reflect, and celebrate stories made by Burners. Welcome Home 3.0.
Attend from Anywhere
We’d love you to experience the film festival from inside BurnerSphere, but we know it’s not always convenient. To deliver on our gift to the community, there are two additional ways you can participate: YouTube and Zoom!
Live Streams
Zoom Link available at 5 PM Pacific
March 5, 2026.
2026 Film Festival Schedule
Below is the schedule for the BurnerSphere Film Festival. When the credits roll, the conversation continues with live Q&A sessions featuring the artists, inviting curiosity, dialogue, and communal exchange. (Schedule may change and new events will be added.)
Enjoy screenings of up to two films in each segment. Start times for second film may vary.
All times are in Pacific Time.
Thursday, March 5
BSFF: AMA & Onboarding Film Festival Call
Category: Workshop
Event DetailsFriday, March 6
Saturday, March 7
Sunday, March 8
Meet The Filmmakers, Artists, and Special Guests
The filmmakers, artists, and special guests are gathering. Each brings a distinct voice shaped by participation, creativity, and lived experience within the community.
Terry Pratt
Profiles In Dust
I began Profiles In Dust as a volunteer Documentary Film Crew for the Burning Man Project in 2011. Our team is comprised of 6 official members, along with help from many other Burners. We have produced over 50 documentaries on diverse subjects surround Burning Man and its culture.
Rand Larson
Temple Builders Guild Tribute to the Crew – Temple of Together
Rand lives and works in Palm Springs as a photographer in the corporate event world. Since 2019 he’s been documenting the build and builders for each year’s Temple. His goal is to let my lens be a flashlight shining on the crew. He wants the Burning Man community know who these people are that build this amazing art, and what sort of people they are. It’s a beautiful structure every year. The people who build it are equally beautiful.
Photo Credit: Temple of Together – Scott London
Neo Weng
Moments: Luz and Nox — Art in Motion
Director, DP & Editor at IWCS. Dedicated to gathering and editing the fleeting moments of Burning Man across 6 major films since 2015.
Mona Hsuan Chin Wu
Mona Wu is a Taiwan-based film producer representing the International Wood Culture Society (IWCS). Since 2015, IWCS has documented large-scale art installations at Burning Man, exploring the relationship between art, nature, and human experience.
Her work examines how wood carries cultural memory and becomes a meeting point for collective creation. Through documentary storytelling, she highlights how communities gather, build, and reimagine their connection to the earth. Most recently, she has produced documentary films for World Expo 2025 in Japan, exploring how nations tell their stories through space, structure, and material.
Janis Hesse
Die, Mona Die!
Janis K. Hesse is a German neuroscientist researching the neural mechanisms of consciousness and psychedelics at UC Berkeley. Before his role as project lead and camp co-lead at Mona Art Project, Janis contributed to Burning Man as part of a neuroscience-themed camp hosting talks and workshops on psychedelics. In his free time, Janis also writes and performs music in various funk and rock bands.
Miao He
He Miao, an alumna of the China Academy of Art’s Department of Sculpture, has spent years immersed in the creation of public art and sculptural works. She has been a recurring contributor to Burning Man, where her installations have garnered international recognition. Her artistic practice merges public art with spatial design to reflect on pressing social issues. Through her signature use of materials—juxtaposing a delicate exterior with a resilient core—He Miao crafts a compelling metaphor for feminine strength, drawing widespread attention and acclaim.
Panelist and Moderators
Morgan McClure
Originally from New Hampshire, Morgan found her way to Black Rock City by way of Indonesia, Ohio, Boston, and San Francisco. She attended her first burn in 2022, and immediately started looking for an art project to join. The first sign up she saw was Temple of the Heart, and after participating in that build, she was hooked.
When she is not working on temple building in Oakland or the Playa, she works as an academic advisor to Optometry students at UC Berkeley, and likes to spend time with her husband Will trying to find the best cup of coffee in the Bay Area.
Peter Platzgummer
Peter Platzgummer has been with Burning Man Project since 2021. As the Associate Director of Art Management, he supports artists throughout the lifecycle of the nearly 500 large-scale sculptures featured annually—from early-stage design and construction to financing, project management, and post-event placement.
Previously, Peter served as a Program Manager and Producer at a U.S. art fabrication studio, specializing in immersive and kinetic high-tech art installations.
As a board member and part of the Five Ton Crane artist collective, Peter also builds community sculptures that have been exhibited all over the United States.
Peter holds a Ph.D. in Public Management from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Justin Gunn
Justin Gunn, a Senior Creative Producer at Big Rock Creative, is a documentary producer and director with over three decades of experience leading creative teams at the intersection of video production and interactive technologies. He has received numerous industry awards, including the Producers Guild Innovation Award, multiple Webby awards, and a nomination for a National News & Documentary Emmy. Gunn is a pioneer in cross-platform and immersive entertainment, having worked with several innovative companies, including CNET, Digital Entertainment Network, Current TV, and Big Rock Creative.
Follow Us
There are a few ways to stay connected as the BurnerSphere Film Festival comes together. Alongside direct email updates, you can also follow us on Instagram (and Facebook and TikTok) for announcements, breaking news, and special moments as things take shape. It’s another way to keep information accessible and stay in the flow, in whatever way works best for you.
