Directing

Kidlat Tahimik

Born October 3, 1942 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".

Kidlat Tahimik

Biography

Directed Films

Kabunyan's Journey to Liwanag

Journey

BalikBayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux VI

Balikbayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux III

Roofs of the World! Unite!

Video-Palaro: The Video Diaries of Kidlat Tahimik

Our Film-Grimage to Guimaras

Some More Rice

Holy Wood

Japanese Summers of a Filipino Fundoshi

Celebrating the Year 2021, Today

Our Bomb Mission in Hiroshima

Why Is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow?

Orbit 50: Letters to My 3 Sons

Takedera mon amour: Diary of a Bamboo Connection

Memories of Overdevelopment

Turumba

Yan Ki Made in Hongkong

Perfumed Nightmare

Who Invented The Yoyo? Who Invented The Moon Buggy?

Also Appeared In

First Light

Cinemartyrs

Bulakna

Lucid

A Man Who Became Cinema

BalikBayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux VI

Ode to Dreamers

Balikbayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux III

Illogical Patterns of a Logical Parallelism

Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement

José Rizal

Japanese Summers of a Filipino Fundoshi