Doctober Screening: Humboldt, USA
Join us for two screenings of Humboldt, USA during Pickford Film Center’s Doctober: October 18th, 10:15 a.m. and October 21st, 5:20 p.m.
About the film:
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.