1 Giant Leap (2002)
Palm Pictures

Description

1 Giant Leap is a collaborative dvd project for the 21st century, which fuses music, words, sounds, rhythms and images from over 25 locations in 20 countries around the globe to celebrate diversity of musicians, story-tellers, authors, filmmakers, artists, entrepreneurs, artists, and thinkers from many different cultures. 1 Giant Leap is a title, a philosophy, a leap of faith that sprung from the minds of visionary UK musicians/visual artists Jamie Catto (Faithless) and Duncan Bridgeman. It is the embodiment of the unity in human diversity and a cross-cultural exploration of universal truth that is a global journey unto itself.

1 Giant Leap features: Kurt Vonnegut, Dennis Hopper, Ram Dass, Tom Robbins, Anita Roddick, Brian Eno, Michael Stipe (REM), Robbie Williams, Neneh Cherry, Speech (Arrested Development), Stewart Copeland, Baaba Maal, and many more.

Tags

Uganda, Philosophy, Senegal, Ghana, South Africa, India, Nepal, Sikkim, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, USA, Composition

Collected reviews and ratings

10 DVD Times | Noel Megahey

It’s as hard to sufficiently convey the ambition of 1 Giant Leap – What About Me? as it is to adequately do it justice in a review. As a musical project, it’s without parallel, the creators working largely outside the traditional commercial blueprint of the music industry, doing something that is genuinely innovative and exciting.
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10 digitallyobsessed.com | Dan Lopez

Intense and thought-provoking, 1 Giant Leap is, in fact, a giant leap for productions of this sort. A collaboration that ebbs and flows so naturally, this project is truly astounding at times. Never pretentious or heavy-handed in its message, it delivers a solid dose of music, philosophy, and mood enhancement. In every way an idea like this should work, 1 Giant Leap does. Brilliant.
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9.0 Amazon user reviews

Creators Duncan Bridgeman and Jamie Catto cast themselves as globetrotting ambassadors of goodwill and good music, and they prove better as musical explorers than as filmmakers. The result is a flowing, loose-knit tapestry of imagery, interviews, and diverse performances.
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9.0 MovieFreak.com

The documentary remains up to interpretation and each observer may take various things from it; with all this said I highly recommend this DVD – a worthy addition to any collection.
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4.0 DVD Town | Dean Winkelspecht

I almost feel guilty for not being overly excited by "1 Giant Leap." The documentary is a very well made collection of coherent shorts that discuss various social topics and are back-dropped by some phenomenal pieces of cultural music.
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4.0 Film Journal International | Daniel Eagan

Many of the musicians are shot in unflattering close-ups, and their songs are interrupted by long montages of irrelevant, often pointless images. Rather than enhance the music, the filmmakers' efforts trivialize it, turning it into the equivalent of politically correct screensavers.
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