![]() This conversation has been edited for length and clarity. In an interview with High Country News, Goldhaber explains how he and his collaborators settled on the heist form – and what they hoped to accomplish with a film he says is explicitly political in its aims. In short, it’s a strange hybrid of intellectual arguments and cinematic thrills, colored in the grays and yellows of the Southwest. ![]() It closely follows the structure of Ocean’s Eleven and other classic heist movies, complete with title slides and freeze frames to fill in the characters’ motivations.īut rather than celebrating the glories of high-stakes robbery, Pipeline explores the complexities of what, exactly, counts as terrorism, and whether some acts are too extreme to win ordinary people over to climate action. The film, which is in limited release, was inspired by Andreas Malm’s 2021 manifesto of that name, although it sets aside the text’s academic arguments and instead imbues a group of eight young people with the author’s questions and concerns. ![]() ![]() If the rhythm of the new film How to Blow Up a Pipeline, about a group of young people conspiring to do exactly what the name of the film promises, feels familiar, director Daniel Goldhaber says that’s intentional. ![]()
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