Scientific American Takes Readers and Listeners Inside the Nail-Biting Quest to Find the ‘Loneliest Whale’

Filmmaker Josh Zeman talks The Loneliest Whale: The Search for 52 with Scientific American:

Amer: That’s Josh Zeman, a filmmaker who made a documentary about listening for a whale across the vastness of the Pacific ocean … a film whose outcome, it turns out, was as uncertain as the existence of the whale he wanted to find.

Josh Zeman: The idea of a lonely creature, really, in essence, it’s man’s existential crisis, right? You know, the loneliness crisis to be worthwhile … that story, that existential crisis story is in the form of a whale, a creature that is so big that it humbles us as human beings and is kind of beautiful and serene and almost spiritual. That was really the initial quest. It was to understand why we as human beings were affected by that idea.

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