Fern Silva Movies

  • 2021
    Rock Bottom Riser

    Rock Bottom Riser

    Rock Bottom Riser

    12021HD

    From the earliest voyagers who navigated by starlight to the discovery of habitable planets by astronomers, Rock Bottom Riser examines the...

    Rock Bottom Riser
  • 2017
    The Watchmen

    The Watchmen

    The Watchmen

    02017HD

    In The Watchmen, pulsating orbs, panopticons, roadside rest stops, and subterranean labyrinths confront the scope of human consequences and the...

    The Watchmen
  • 2018
    The Grand Bizarre

    The Grand Bizarre

    The Grand Bizarre

    6.62018HD

    A kinetic journey through the graphic motifs of textiles paired with figures and landscapes to explore the technological development of fabric...

    The Grand Bizarre
  • 2014
    Wayward Fronds

    Wayward Fronds

    Wayward Fronds

    7.82014HD

    “Mermaids flip a tale of twin detriments, domiciles cradle morph invaders, crocodile trails swallow two-legged twigs in a fecund mash of...

    Wayward Fronds
  • 2020
    Lore

    Lore

    Lore

    72020HD

    Images of landscapes are cut and fragmented, as a hand guides their shape and construction. The voice tells a story about a not too distant past, and...

    Lore
  • 2013
    Liahona

    Liahona

    Liahona

    52013HD

    Liahona is an experimental documentary examining the culture, history, and lived experience of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, often...

    Liahona
  • 2010
    Imposing Disbelief

    Imposing Disbelief

    Imposing Disbelief

    02010HD

    Home Haven employee Mike Roswell is fed up with organized religion. After a less-than-ideal encounter with a Jehovah's Witness leaves him questioning...

    Imposing Disbelief
  • 2011
    Peril of the Antilles

    Peril of the Antilles

    Peril of the Antilles

    92011HD

    Peril of the Antilles was filmed at the beginning of November 2010 while visiting a friend in Haiti. At this specific time, the cholera epidemic was...

    Peril of the Antilles
  • 2014
    Tender Feet

    Tender Feet

    Tender Feet

    92014HD

    Shot on the road in the southwest, leading up to the not quite so cataclysmic and transformative events anticipated to take place around December 21,...

    Tender Feet
  • 2006
    The Most Beautiful Smile in the World

    The Most Beautiful Smile in the World

    The Most Beautiful Smile in the World

    02006HD

    By Fern Silva and starring Rosa Marinete Silva (1946-2021)

    The Most Beautiful Smile in the World
  • 2011
    In the Absence of Light, Darkness Prevails

    In the Absence of Light, Darkness Prevails

    In the Absence of Light, Darkness Prevails

    92011HD

    In the Absence of Light, Darkness Prevails suggests a future already arrived, merging the destruction with the creation of life as seen in the tiny...

    In the Absence of Light, Darkness Prevails
  • 2011
    Forged Ways

    Forged Ways

    Forged Ways

    02011HD

    Filmed on location in Harlem (NY) and Ethiopia, Forged Ways oscillates between the first person account of a filmmaker, a man navigating the streets...

    Forged Ways
  • 2015
    Pants on Fire

    Pants on Fire

    Pants on Fire

    02015HD

    Pants on Fire
  • 2017
    Ride Like Lightning, Crash Like Thunder

    Ride Like Lightning, Crash Like Thunder

    Ride Like Lightning, Crash Like Thunder

    02017HD

    Through softly textured 16mm photography and regional iconography, Silva offers a modernist reflection on two of upstate New York’s most...

    Ride Like Lightning, Crash Like Thunder
  • 2010
    Servants of Mercy

    Servants of Mercy

    Servants of Mercy

    82010HD

    Fern Silva’s Servants of Mercy (Portugal/USA, 2010, 14m), presents a variation on portrait film, subtly showing the redevelopment and changes...

    Servants of Mercy
  • 2015
    Scales in the Spectrum of Space

    Scales in the Spectrum of Space

    Scales in the Spectrum of Space

    92015HD

    A glimpse into the collective memory of the city of Chicago at the invitation of the Chicago Film Archive. In a very associative way, the...

    Scales in the Spectrum of Space
  • 2012
    Concrete Parlay

    Concrete Parlay

    Concrete Parlay

    92012HD

    Carried by the frenetic energy of a magic carpet, Concrete Parlay is a metaphysical flight that weaves among visual kernels of the anthropic and...

    Concrete Parlay
  • 2007
    Notes from a Bastard Child

    Notes from a Bastard Child

    Notes from a Bastard Child

    82007HD

    A film by Fern Silva

    Notes from a Bastard Child
  • 2009
    Sahara Mosaic

    Sahara Mosaic

    Sahara Mosaic

    102009HD

    Sahara Mosaic is an orientalist kaleidoscope that constitutes a geographically complex, yet cinematic whole. From Egypt to Las Vegas: the old and the...

    Sahara Mosaic
  • 2008
    After Marks

    After Marks

    After Marks

    102008HD

    Soon after Mark LaPore died, I began having dreams of him, with him, in locations that often resembled the ones in his films, the ones he shot in...

    After Marks