Australia

2024

CYCLING THE WORLD

  • Australia
  • New Zealand
  • North America

Film maker: McKenzie Barney
Runtime: 33:00 mins.

Cycling The World tells the story of one woman’s multi-year journey to see the world by bicycle. Through five continents, 28 countries and 29,000 kilometers, McKenzie encounters as much of an exploration of the outer world as her inner landscape. Her quest through Southeast Asia, Europe, Africa, New Zealand, Australia and South America is mostly solo, connecting the explorer through moving meditation to nature, foreign cultures, and self. Along the way McKenzie is caught in a military coup in Sudan, has a spear thrown at her by a Samburu tribesman in Kenya, is ambushed by a wild African elephant in Botswana, crosses one of the planet’s harshest desert environments in the Australian Outback, revisits a land where she first began human-powered expeditions in New Zealand, traverses the world’s largest salt flats in Bolivia, and navigates 16,000-foot below-freezing mountain summits along the spine of the Andes in Peru. Told through the lens of a storyteller who wanted to live her own story, Cycling The World is one woman’s inner dialogue and visual poem to the world. Narrative is woven with visuals of our natural world’s most magical vistas. This 33-minute documentary film is an ode to braving uncertainty, building courage as a callus, and living the life of our wildest dreams, one pedal rotation at a time.

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