An Act Of Self-Defence: How To Blow Up A Pipeline Interview

Director Daniel Goldhaber discusses his eco-thriller heist film, which adapts Andrea Malm’s political philosophy on sabotage into a narrative about environmental activism. The conversation, conducted at Glasgow Film Festival, explores how cinema can create cultural frameworks for radical discourse without claiming to be direct activism. The film follows a diverse ensemble of characters—each driven by personal climate catastrophes—plotting to sabotage a major pipeline infrastructure. Goldhaber emphasizes collaborative filmmaking and the visual documentation of labor and synchronized bodies engaged in resistance. The project reimagines the heist genre as a vehicle for examining climate desperation, blending philosophical inquiry with genre entertainment conventions to imagine alternative futures and tactical vocabularies for environmental justice movements.

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