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Drawing inspiration from climate scholar Andreas Malm's book of the same title, our Earth Day screening is a wakeup call for every generation. Q&A with the film's screenwriter to follow!
A crew of young environmental activists unite to take action in the face of devastating effects of increasing climate change catastrophes. Together, they plan to execute a daring mission to sabotage an oil pipeline in this taut and timely thriller that is part high-stakes heist, part radical exploration of the climate crisis. Get your free ebook copy of Andreas Malm's How to Blow Up a Pipeline, which helped inspire the film. [104 min; action, crime, drama, thriller; English]
A Q&A with the film's screenwriter, Jordan Sjol, will follow the screening.
Jordan Sjol is a screenwriter, producer, and film and media scholar. As a filmmaker, he is particularly interested in using genre film to bring challenging ideas to broad audiences. His first feature, How to Blow Up a Pipeline, adapted a non-fiction manifesto on the use of sabotage in environmental movements into a heist film. His current projects, including a post-apocalyptic action movie, an animated sci-fi TV show, and a Western, all make similar uses of genre. Based in Greencastle, Indiana, Jordan serves as Assistant Professor of Film and Media Arts at DePauw University, where he teaches screenwriting, production, film history, and film and media theory. His academic research is broadly focused on the ways that film and other communication media impact the global exercise of power.
"The electric, forthright How to Blow Up a Pipeline excels as both truly riveting entertainment and an energizing call to action, in part through the cleverness of its genre conceit: what could be a better fit for a story about collective action and fighting the system than a heist movie?" — Josh Slater-Williams
"How to Blow Up a Pipeline is the rare movie that effectively weaponizes a radical political message by marrying it to conventional genre storytelling. It feels like a game-changer: the kind of movie that will inspire artists and budding activists alike for generations to come." — Pete Volk, Polygon
"In its final moments, How to Blow Up a Pipeline proves it has the guts and lucidity to challenge even the most capitalist of minds, even if the film never blatantly endorses the extreme measures it depicts." — Tomris Laffly, TheWrap
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This screening includes PARADOXICAL THINKING: THE FILMS OF DAVID LYNCH
Sun, Feb 9, 10 am
