Kidlat Tahimik
Birthday: 1942-10-03
Place of Birth: Baguio City, Benguet, Philippines
Biography: Eric de Guia (born October 3, 1942 in Baguio City, Philippines), better known as Kidlat Tahimik (a Tagalog translation of "silent lightning"), is a film director, writer and actor whose films are commonly associated with the Third Cinemamovement through their critiques of neocolonialism. One of the most prominent names in the Filipino film industry, he has garnered various accolades locally and internationally, including a Plaridel honorarium for Independent Cinema. He is dubbed by fellow filmmakers and critics as the "Father of Philippine Independent Cinema".
Movies
Perfumed Nightmare
Kidlat, a Filipino jeepney driver, is fascinated by the idea of the American space programme and by ...
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Lucid
A national artist delivers a powerful message urging us to embrace and celebrate our cultural herita...
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Shaman Wars
Three powerful shamans fight it out in a series of bizarre encounters over an a-go-go dancer. Their ...
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A Man Who Became Cinema
Masato Hara made his directorial debut in high school in 1968 and achieved a reputation as a young p...
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The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
The film follows Kaspar Hauser, who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny ce...
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Balikbayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux III
Magellan, the famous navigator, met his untimely death in the Philippines before he could circumnavi...
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A Movie Capital
This film is a record of the first Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. It reflects the...
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José Rizal
Accused of treason, Dr. Jose P. Rizal awaits trial and meets with his colonial government-appointed ...
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BalikBayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux VI
As the ultimate enfant terrible of Philippine cinema, avant-gardist Kidlat Tahimik refuses to settle...
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Japanese Summers of a Filipino Fundoshi
Kidlat Tahimik, a director and performer, sought to recreate relations between the body and filmed i...
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I am Blushing
"I am blushing" - Swedish comedy about a film crew traveling to the Philippines to find environments...
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Ode to Dreamers
A machine capable of recording ideas directly from the mind is invented, and an out-of-work comedian...
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Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement
Documentary profiling the directors involved in the loose Philippine New Wave filmmaking movement....
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Sinong Lumikha ng Yoyo? Sinong Lumikha ng Moon Buggy?
Stuck in the German lands of “Yodelburg,” our hero Kidlat dreams of space and muses on humanity’s en...
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Bulakna
An observation of post-colonial economic relations through the intersecting trajectories of two Fili...
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Shaman Showman: The Life and Work of Roberto Villanueva
A documentary film by filmmaker couple Egay Navarro and Rica Concepcion. It focuses on the life of B...
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First Light
An elderly nun witnesses a young construction worker's fatal accident, compelling her to question th...
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Cinemartyrs
A young filmmaker is bent on recreating forgotten massacres from Philippine history, but when she be...
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