Hop Film: 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.
A group of young people plan and execute a radical act of self-defense against the fossil fuel industry.
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.
