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The new film by AFVS alumnus ('13) Daniel Goldhaber, in collaboration with and edited by AFVS alumnus ('13) Daniel Garber, How to Blow Up a Pipeline follows a group of young environmental activists as they plan to sabotage and explode an oil pipeline in Texas. Part revenge thriller, part political fable of what could be an act of “productive terrorism,” How to Blow Up a Pipeline is a timely exploration of the energy of young bodies when they are set for political action, and its possible cinematographic forms.
Inspired by Andreas Malm’s controversial 2021 non-fiction book with the same title, where sabotage is promoted as a necessary form of climate activism at this moment of crisis, the film is an arresting call to action, full of contagious energy that moves every shot and every sound, every single one of the exceptionally directed actors, and is masterfully sustained by the editing. How to Blow Up a Pipeline premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, and is being screened in this series in advance of its wide U.S. theatrical release.
Daniel Goldhaber and Daniel Garber will be present for a conversation following the screening.