
Somewhere on Earth: New Mexico
New Mexico gets the profile treatment in this episode of the Somewhere on Earth series, tracking three residents shaped by the state's deserts, mountains, and rivers. Sarah, raised in Taos on the banks of the Rio Grande, spends her days white water kayaking the river she grew up beside, and the camera follows her through the rapids that define her routine. James rides the cusp of speed and risk on a skateboard, pushing past 80 km/h in pursuit of what he calls a balance between adrenaline and harmony, treating the sport as much as art as extreme stunt. Kristi, who returned ten years ago to ancestral Apache land in the state's south, is filmed on a pilgrimage into Indigenous territory that doubles as a search for her own family history. The film moves between these three lives without a single throughline beyond the landscape itself, letting kayaking, skateboarding, and a personal homecoming stand as three different ways of belonging to the same wide-open place.