EcoDocs Film Lecture Series: If A Tree Falls, October 9
"It’s tempting to watch If A Tree Falls, a doc about a scraggly group of ecoterrorists, with a chip of skepticism on your shoulder. Yet the film creates a fantastic moral ambivalence. It was shot after the members of the Earth Liberation Front were arrested by the FBI, and it allows them to explain how, and why, they committed over 100 "actions" of arson against timber companies, SUV dealerships, and slaughterhouses, mostly in the Northwest. The film sweeps us up like a thriller, forcing us to at least ask whether terrorism like the ELF’s (which targeted property, never human lives) might ever be justified."
––Owen Glieberman, Entertainment Weekly