HUMBOLDT USA (completed)
Director: G. Anthony Svatek
Producer: Elijah Stevens
Cinematographer: Sean Hanley
Editor: Kaija Siirala
Original Music: Celia Hollander
In three namesakes of 19th century gay scientist Alexander von Humboldt – Humboldt County, Nevada, Humboldt Parkway in Buffalo NY, and Humboldt Redwoods, California – the struggle for environmental protection interweaves with technological alienation and climate collapse, in this experimental journey of American nature.
The three braided stories reflect Humboldt’s photo-ecologist motto “everything is interconnectedness” – asking: how do the tools of the modern world change our relationship to nature?
Addressed as a fraught love letter to Alexander von Humboldt – the world’s most used namesake – Humboldt USA paints a portrait of Americans trying to understand and respond to their rapidly changing environments.
Humboldt USA is supported by Ford Foundation JustFilms and New York State Council on the Arts, and fiscally sponsored by Maysles Documentary Center.
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