Echoes of the Invisible

A poetic meditation on the vital importance of stillness and silence in the digital age, told from the perspective of scientists, journalists, monks and artists brave enough to venture into Earth’s most extreme environments where reservoirs of silence still exist. This film weaves together a multitude of journeys across the globe. A blind man runs alone from the lowest point of the Western hemisphere to the highest mountain in the United States. A photographer attempts to capture the oldest living beings on Earth. A journalist travels 21,000 miles to retrace the path of our ancestors as they discovered the planet. Astronomers and physicians try to see into the deepest stretches of time…