Countless places across the U.S. bear the name of Alexander von Humboldt. In fact, the German naturalist and polymath has been described as the person with more species – from penguins and monkeys to an orchid – and places named after him than any other human. And at the beginning of the 19th century, he proposed a radical idea that has also been popular in the context of climate change: to consider nature as a “network of interconnected lives.”
Humboldt USA, the feature film debut from G. Anthony Svatek, follows in his footsteps, traveling across the U.S., from ancient redwood forests to a parkway in New York state and the bright lights of Nevada, to explore our evolving relationship with nature. Weaving together the stories of people in those locations, Humboldt’s own words and thoughts from the filmmaker, the kaleidoscopic result is a playful, but also fraught, love letter to
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