Wednesday, August 16, 2023
6:30 pm screening (doors open at 6:00 pm)
18 West Houston Street
New York City
Tickets required; click here to purchase on the Climate Museum website.
In conjunction with our forthcoming issue, Energy, Lapham’s Quarterly will partner with the Climate Museum and the Center for Constitutional Rights to present a special screening of the 2022 eco-thriller film How to Blow Up a Pipeline based on the nonfiction book of the same name by Andreas Malm.
In a post-screening conversation moderated by Miranda Massie, director and founder of the Climate Museum, panelists Vincent Warren (executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights) and Mia Charlene White (professor of environmental studies at the New School) will join filmmakers Daniel Goldhaber and Dan Garber to discuss the portrayal of radical social movements throughout history and the strategies and stakes of environmental activism today. (Depending on the outcome of the SAG-AFTRA strike, additional panelists may also appear.)
How to Blow Up a Pipeline follows a group of eight individuals who come together to sabotage an oil pipeline in West Texas, taking direct action against an industry that has wreaked irreversible damage on their lives and communities. In a time when record-breaking heat waves, forest fires, and myriad other climate catastrophes manifest the consequences of the combustion of fossil fuels, this film presents at once a searing critique and a propulsive, character-driven story.
Daniel Garber is a filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY, with work spanning documentary and fiction. Primarily employed as an editor, he was nominated for a Cinema Eye Honors award for his editing on Sierra Pettengill and Pacho Velez’s feature documentary The Reagan Show. He has also edited Lance Oppenheim’s feature documentary Some Kind of Heaven and Daniel Goldhaber's eco-activist heist thriller How to Blow Up a Pipeline, among others. He was included in Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film, DOC NYC 40 Under 40, and Berlinale Talents.
Daniel Goldhaber is a director, writer and producer based in New York. He graduated from Harvard University where he studied Visual and Environmental Studies. He directed the Netflix horror film, CAM, which won Best First Feature at the 2018 Fantasia Film Festival, and the 2022 film How to Blow Up a Pipeline, which premiered in the Platform Section of the 2022 Toronto Film Festival where it was acquired by NEON. Daniel was named as one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Film 2018." He is passionate about finding ways to tell provocative, challenging stories in thrilling and accessible ways. His new film, Faces of Death, is currently in post production.
Miranda Massie is the founder and director of New York City’s Climate Museum, the first climate-dedicated museum in the United States. The museum mobilizes the power of arts and cultural programming to invite visitors into climate engagement and agency and to transform our public culture for action at scale. Massie is active within several coalitions focused on climate-oriented work within the cultural sector, serves on numerous international design juries, and speaks frequently on the need to integrate programming on the climate crisis across the cultural sector. She left a career in civil-rights impact litigation to establish the museum, having been awarded a Mentorship-in-Residence at Yale Law School and W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute and Wasserstein Public Interest Fellowships at Harvard University. She is a Public Voices Fellow with the OpEd Project and the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication.
Vincent Warren is a leading expert on racial injustice and discriminatory policing and the executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights. He oversees the organization’s groundbreaking litigation and advocacy work, using international and domestic law to challenge human-rights abuses, including racial, gender, and LGBTQIA injustice. His writing has been featured in the New York Times Room for Debate, the Guardian, on the Huffington Post, and on CNN.com, among other publications. Warren is the recipient of many awards, including the New York State Bar Association’s Committee on Civil Rights 2016 Haywood Burns Memorial Award and the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers 2015 Justice Award.
Mia Charlene White is assistant professor of environmental studies in the Environmental Studies Program at the Schools of Public Engagement of the New School. She has a bachelor’s degree in anthropology and political science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, a master of international affairs (environmental policy) from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, and a PhD in urban studies and planning (housing and environment) from MIT. Given the diversity of her training, White’s work is interdisciplinary and she situates herself among radical geographers (race geography) and applied anthropologists, planning/urban theorists (fugitive planning), radical sociologists/historians, and those others seeking to link social-science concepts of space and race to the humanities via art and protest.
Lapham’s Quarterly is a magazine of history and ideas founded in 2007 by Lewis H. Lapham. Each issue addresses a topic of current interest and concern by bringing up to the microphone of the present the advice and counsel of the past, collecting fiction, nonfiction, poems, and essays from over four thousand years of history, all gathered around a single theme. Subscribe today, and you will receive Freedom as the first issue in your yearlong subscription.
This event is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
Angelika New York 18 West Houston Street New York City