Synopsis
Night Moves is the story of three radical environmentalists coming together to execute the most intense protest of their lives: the explosion of a hydroelectric dam—the very source and symbol of the energy-sucking, resource-devouring industrial culture they despise. Night Moves is a tale of suspense and a meditation on the consequences of political extremism. When do legitimate convictions truly demand illegal behaviors? What happens to a person’s political principles when they find their back against the wall?

Program Note
This film is the latest film of Kelly REICHARDT who has been receiving the most attention among women directors of the same
 age. Drawing of young woman Wendy looking for a job in Wendy and Lucy, Kelly once coldly gazed into the shadow of the welfare
 system which has only been intimidated in this era of neo-liberalism. This time, in the Night Moves, she portrays the dilemma that
 environmental issues and progressive movements are in with the northwestern United States setting.

 Harmon, the macho man, a former navy, is an action head and Dena, a daughter of the rich family, furnishes fund, and Josh, a
 member of the family running an organic farm, is a leader. These three plan the most dangerous night trip in order to alert to
 environmental issues. They decide to blow a hydroelectric dam up, which is a symbol of environmental destruction. However, due
 to their all different surroundings and their common idealism, reckless and naive, something unexpected happens and their loose
 bond and individual vulnerability explode at the same time.

 Taking the most American geopolitical scene and narrative, Kelly REICHARDT leads cinematic experience to thinking experience
 on nature or environment through movements and pauses in shots subtly capturing the air and beautiful landscape of Oregon,
 the background of the case, as well as ironical set-up in which fertilizer works as explosive substance, while enhances powerful
 dramatic elements circling within the subject, eco-terrorism. [KWON Eun-sun]