Kidlat Tahimik
- Directing
- 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".
Known for
Filmography
- First Light · Diwa
- Cinemartyrs · Tatay Kidlat
- Bulakna
- Tata Picks Up the Landscape · Self
- Tata Cuts Down the Timescape · Self
- Lucid · Self
- Kabunyan's Journey to Liwanag · Director
- Journey · Director, Screenplay
- A Man Who Became Cinema
- BalikBayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux VI · Director
- Ode to Dreamers · Panaginip Pictures CEO
- Balikbayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux III · Director
- Illogical Patterns of a Logical Parallelism
- Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement · Self
- Roofs of the World! Unite! · Director, Writer
- Video-Palaro: The Video Diaries of Kidlat Tahimik · Director
- Our Film-Grimage to Guimaras · Director, Writer
- Some More Rice · Director, Writer
- Holy Wood · Director, Writer
- José Rizal · La Liga Filipina Guest
- Japanese Summers of a Filipino Fundoshi · Self, Director
- Celebrating the Year 2021, Today · Director, Writer
- Our Bomb Mission in Hiroshima · Director
- Why Is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow? · Writer, Cinematography
- Orbit 50: Letters to My 3 Sons · Director, Writer
- A Movie Capital · Self
- Takedera mon amour: Diary of a Bamboo Connection · Director, Writer
- Memories of Overdevelopment · Director, Writer
- Shaman Wars · Shaman
- I am Blushing · Kidlat, the driver
- Turumba · Director, Writer
- Yan Ki Made in Hongkong · Director, Writer
- Perfumed Nightmare · Kidlat, Director
- Who Invented The Yoyo? Who Invented The Moon Buggy? · Kidlat, Writer
- The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser · Hombrecito, the Indian
- Shaman Showman: The Life and Work of Roberto Villanueva