What About me -U.K 2008

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In 2004 musician film-makers Duncan Bridgeman and Jamie Catto set off around the world with a digital camera, a lap top and a vision, to capture and weave together as much musical, philosophical, artistic and spiritual inspiration as the world had to offer, and to examine, through their many diverse encounters, the extent of humanity’s collective insanity, our insatiable desire, our obsessions, fixations, desperations and above all, our inability to stop thinking

They explored the themes of the new ‘What About Me?’ project both musically and philosophically; for the music, they set out on a cultural treasure hunt traveling to Europe, South America, USA, India, Japan, China and the Middle East – and along their way they invited the cream of the local musicians to play along with their pre-composed music tracks, to listen to the musicians that had played on their tracks so far on the journey and add their own song or instrument to the mix.

Traveling with their music in their laptops allowed them to record musicians in and around their homes, from the mountains of Nepal to the beaches of Ghana, and from the deserts of Rajasthan to the streets of New York.

Then as each track grew, country by country, Bridgeman and Catto interviewed the most inspiring thinkers, teachers, alarming and entertaining characters from all walks of life about all the ways we drive ourselves crazy, all the ways we try to hide our suffering, all the victories and laughter and the defeats and tears as we strive to survive the Modern World.

‘What About Me?’ fuses opinions and insights, both alarming and inspirational, from 50 global locations - hundreds of interviews with writers, market-sellers, brain surgeons, criminals, grave diggers and gurus, some famous, most unknown…as the artists and singers express from their deepest truths the universal themes of Love, Pain, Surrender, and Grace in the most wide-reaching and diverse musical, philosophical and spiritual collaboration ever created.

Featuring: Noam Chomsky, Tim Robbins, Bob Geldof, Tom Robbins, Eckhart Tolle, Billy Connolly, Stephen Fry, DBC Pierre, Neale Donald Walsh, Ram Dass

MUSIC: Michael Stipe, KD Lang, Alanis Morrisette, Daniel Lanois, Maxi Jazz, Oumou Sangare, Baaba Maal, Rokia Traore, Lila Downs, Zap Mama, Speech, Mahotella Queens, Michael Franti, Stewart Copeland…