RHIZOBIA: HOW TO BLOW UP A PIPELINE INCL. Q&A
Rhizobia is a forward thinking series of events in which LAB111 alongside Stichting art.1, explore various prescient environmental issues and global prespectives on climate change through the spectre of film.
In this occasion we explore advocacy and radicalization through a film inspired partly by Andreas Malm’s radical eco-activist manifesto of the same title, in which the message is loud and clear: New forms of resistance are coming. The climate struggle has entered a new phase, marked by a desperate quest for effective tactics, executed by courageously kamikaze generations not yet jaded by doom – performative disrespects that cannot be ignored, a mode of action that disrupts business-as-usual by a growing number of humans desperate to pull the emergency brake.
This American environmentalist action-thriller film set in West Texas and directed by Daniel Goldhaber, follows a fictional group of eight young activists who decide to blow up an oil pipeline. It explores themes such as the moral consequences of decision-making, the reality and validity of radicalized climate activism, the question of terrorism, and the use of property damage and sabotage as advocacy tactics.
Screening includes a Q&A afterwards.
Rhizobia is a collaboration between LAB111 and Stichting Art.1