Humboldt, USA
At the beginning of the 19th century, the German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt proposed a radical idea that feels urgently contemporary again in the age of climate crisis: that nature is not a collection of separate systems, but a vast network of interconnected lives. In Humboldt, USA, filmmaker G. Anthony Svatek travels across the United States in search of that idea still alive in the present, from ancient redwood forests in Northern California to the desert landscapes of Nevada and the urban corridors of Buffalo, New York. Across these seemingly disconnected places, all bearing Humboldt’s name, the film uncovers a hidden thread linking ecology, history, and human struggle. Endangered bighorn sheep are relocated across desert terrain, activists fight to reclaim green space from encroaching highways, and scientists work to preserve fragile redwood ecosystems, each confronting the slow erosion of the natural world. Woven through these contemporary stories is the legacy of Humboldt himself, the queer 19th-century thinker often called the father of ecology, whose vision of interconnectedness feels newly urgent. Playful, surprising, and deeply humane, Humboldt, USA becomes both a portrait of environmental crisis and a love letter to the everyday people quietly working to hold their environments together.DocumentaryPT1H29M2026-10-18USenG. Anthony Svatek
Elijah Stevens
G. Anthony Svatek
Sean Hanley
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