SPECIAL SCREENING: ONE GIANT LEAP

REVIEW BY AMELIA GROOM

Billed as an international exploration of music, our egos and insatiable desires, human creativity, and our collective insanity this DVD documentary makes grand promises. With names like Noam Chomsky, Eckhart Tolle, Stephen Fry, Deepak Chopra, Maxi Jazz, Tim Robbins, Billy Connolly, Michael Stipe, KD Lang and Michael Franti dropped, it definitely sounds intriguing.

But what could have been a unique, thoughtful and open exploration of the complexities of human nature soon reveals itself as ungrounded, fluffy, tedious and infuriatingly indulgent. Filmmakers Jamie Catto (of Faithless) and Duncan Bridgeman seamlessly weave their diverse selection of well-known musicians, authors, scientists and thinkers with the likes of Chinese rappers, Gabonese Pygmies and Tuvan throat singers – but their inclusive approach makes the film way too long, with way too little coherence. Worth checking out if you’re into that sort of thing, but don’t take a giant leap in expectations.

 
One Giant Leap
Out now on DVD
Special screening on November 11 at 6.30pm, at Dendy Opera Quays, Circular Quay