How To Blow Up a Pipeline
A group of young people plan and execute a radical act of self-defense against the fossil fuel industry.
Hop Film Now
Propulsive and taut, How to Blow Up a Pipeline is true to its title. Radicalized by climate anxiety and the environmental degradation that is their inheritance, a ragtag group of twenty-somethings from different walks of life decide direct, explosive action is the only option left if they're to reclaim a more hopeful future. The film unfolds as an intense procedural through the planning and execution of their desperate sabotage. Adapted from Andreas Malm's treatise of the same title, with the cinematic pleasures of a heist film and the ideological assuredness of a manifesto, How to Blow Up a Pipeline is a statement of climate activism as self-defense.
With opening remarks from students with Sunrise Dartmouth and wine and cheese available at 6:15 pm in the BVAC atrium.
D: Daniel Goldhaber, US, 2023, 1h44m
“Tense and tightly plotted, How To Blow Up A Pipeline is existentially terrifying but not nihilistic. It’s an exciting, humanist eco-thriller that figures there’s still time to take action—but only so much.”
Kambole Campbell, Empire
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