Humboldt USA

Across the United States, countless locales still bear the name of Alexander von Humboldt, a queer traveler and visionary naturalist who is now largely forgotten. A longing filmmaker makes three of these places the unlikely common ground, weaving Humboldt’s own words through present-day lives: urban activists greening neglected neighborhoods, scientists scanning redwood forests, hunters returning bighorn sheep to protected land. Across generations and landscapes, HUMBOLDT USA asks what remains of a vision of 'interconnectedness'.