kviff.com
News
Festival Guide
  • Tickets and Festival Pass
  • Accommodations
  • Transportation
  • Festival cinemas
  • No Barriers project
  • Kids at the festival
  • Festival Shop
Program
  • Catalogue of films
  • Accompanying programme
  • Archive of films
  • Audience award
  • KVIFF Talks
  • Film Entry
Film Industry
  • Industry accreditation
  • Film Industry at KVIFF
  • Industry Days Programme
  • KVIFF Eastern Promises
  • KVIFF Talents
Press
  • Press accreditation
  • Press Service
  • For download
  • Press releases
  • Photogallery
  • Videogallery
About the festival
  • Festival description
  • Programme sections
  • Awards
  • History
  • We support non-profits
  • Photogallery
  • Partners
  • Why We Support the Festival
  • Contacts
CZ
Sign in
Film Archive

Ride Like Lightning, Crash Like Thunder

Imagina 2018 / Ride Like Lightning, Crash Like Thunder / USA 2017

Soothing shots of the countryside complement a picturesque image of the landscape. But something hangs in the air and change is unstoppable. The creeping specter of a horrifying future permeates the environment. The found-footage film, which can be read as a portrait of the United States before the last presidential election, excels for original work with music and imagination.

Ride Like Lightning, Crash Like Thunder Ride Like Lightning, Crash Like Thunder

Synopsis

Soothing shots along the Hudson River in upstate New York complement the serenity of the landscape. But there is something in the air and change is unstoppable. The creeping specter of a horrifying future begins to permeate the environment. Fern Silva’s found-footage film, which can be read as a symbolic portrait of the United States before the last presidential election, excels for original work with music and imagination.

Hubert Poul

About the film

9 min / Color, DCP

Director Fern Silva / Dir. of Photography Fern Silva / Music Bunny Brains / Editor Fern Silva / Art Director Fern Silva / Producer Fern Silva / Sales Light Cone

About the director

Fern Silva

Fern Silva (b. 1982, Hartford, Connecticut, USA). Selected filmography: Notes from a Bastard Child (2007), Spinners (2008), After Marks (2008), Sahara Mosaic (2009), Servants of Mercy (2010), In the Absence of Light, Darkness Prevails (2010), Peril of the Antilles (2011), Passage Upon the Plume (2011), The Watchmen (2017)

Contacts

Light Cone
57 Rue de Crimée, 75019 , Paris
France
Phone: +33 146 590 153
E-mail: [email protected]

Other partners
Newsletter

First-hand brews throughout the year.
Be among the first to learn about upcoming events and other news. We only send the newsletter when we have something to say.

Follow us on the web:

The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
is part of the KVIFF Group family, which covers other projects as well:

© 2025 KVIFF GROUP

Rules for Visitors / Website visitors privacy policy / GTC / Personal Data Protection / Rules for Claim / Rules and Regulations / Contacts