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LOGLINE

journey into the most extreme environments on Earth to find the connective tissue between all things seen and unseen.

SYNOPSIS

"Echoes of the Invisible" interweaves a mosaic of profound quests. A blind man runs alone through Death Valley as journalist Paul Salopek walks 21,000 miles across the world to retrace our ancestors' migration. Photographer Rachel Sussman struggles to capture the oldest living organisms on the planet while astronomers and physicists attempt to penetrate the furthest depths of time. These ambitious explorers, alongside monks journeying to the earth's furthest reaches, are connected through their tireless search to touch the human heart in a world of noise and division. 

EXPLORER BIOS

Paul Salopek

Paul Salopek’s 21,000-mile odyssey known as the “Out Of Eden Walk” is a decade-long experiment in slow journalism, walking the pathways of the first humans who migrated out of Africa in the Stone Age and made the Earth ours. Along the way he is covering the major stories of our time, to create a global record of human life at the start of a new millennium as told by villagers, nomads, traders, farmers, soldiers, and artists who rarely make the news. In this way, if we choose to slow down and observe carefully, we also can rediscover our world.

Rachel Sussman

Rachel Sussman’s critically acclaimed, decade-long project “The Oldest Living Things In The World” was a global journey to photograph continuously living organisms 2,000 years and older.  Practically half of these subjects have just been discovered in the past 30 years.  Rachel’s investigations into Deep Time have resulted in an original index of millennia-old organisms that has never before been created in the arts or sciences; global symbols that transcend the things that divide us.

Al Arnold

Al Arnold was a pioneer of pushing the human body beyond it’s known limits.  By the time he was in his 50s, and almost completely blind, he decided to accomplish the impossible: running alone all the way across Death Valley - one of the hottest and most lethal environments on Earth - in record summer temperatures, starting at the lowest point in the western Hemisphere and ending at the highest point in the continental U.S. (Mt. Whitney).  His epic journey inspired the Badwater Ultramarathon, known as the “toughest footrace on Earth.” 

Linda Lynch

Linda Lynch is a visual artist exploring the edges of human memory, especially through the relationship between landscape and identity.  She is a a founding member / project manager of Paul Salopek’s “Out Of Eden Walk” and Pensarte, a literacy program for children in under-served schools along the US/Mexico border.

Anil Ananthaswamy

Anil Ananthaswamy has traveled to some of the most extreme environments on Earth - remote and sometimes dangerous places - where massive experiments are attempting to answer the biggest questions known to modern science. His global journeys, documented in his book The Edge of Physics, have shed light on the unsung heroes - brave men and women - who face profound challenges to better understand who we are and our place in the universe.  Ananthaswamy is an author, journalist and a Knight Science Journalism fellow at MIT.

Losang Samten

Losang Samten was Personal Attendant to His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama from 1985 – 1988, and played the role of the attendant to the young Dalai Lama in Martin Scorsese's film Kundun, where he also served as the religious technical advisor and sand mandala supervisor. In 1959, he and his family fled from Tibet to Nepal, spent two months crossing the Himalayas, arriving at Namgyal Monastery in Dharamsala, India, where he became a monk and master in the Tibetan art of creating sand mandalas.