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Kidlat Tahimik

Kidlat Tahimik

Director · Born 1942-10-03 · Baguio City, Benguet, Philippines

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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".

Directed

  1. Perfumed Nightmare (1979) — Director
  2. Turumba (1981) — Director
  3. Why Is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow? (1994) — Director
  4. Who Invented The Yoyo? Who Invented The Moon Buggy? (1979) — Director
  5. Some More Rice (2005) — Director
  6. Japanese Summers of a Filipino Fundoshi (1996) — Director
  7. Balikbayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux III (2015) — Director
  8. Yan Ki Made in Hongkong (1980) — Director
  9. Our Film-Grimage to Guimaras (2005) — Director
  10. Takedera mon amour: Diary of a Bamboo Connection (1991) — Director
  11. Roofs of the World! Unite! (2006) — Director
  12. Memories of Overdevelopment (1984) — Director
  13. Celebrating the Year 2021, Today (1995) — Director
  14. Orbit 50: Letters to My 3 Sons (1992) — Director
  15. Holy Wood (2003) — Director
  16. BalikBayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux VI (2017) — Director
  17. Journey (2019) — Director
  18. Video-Palaro: The Video Diaries of Kidlat Tahimik (2006) — Director
  19. Our Bomb Mission in Hiroshima (1995) — Director
  20. Kabunyan's Journey to Liwanag (2020) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974) — Hombrecito, the Indian
  2. Perfumed Nightmare (1979) — Kidlat
  3. José Rizal (1998) — La Liga Filipina Guest
  4. Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement (2010) — Himself
  5. Who Invented The Yoyo? Who Invented The Moon Buggy? (1979) — Kidlat
  6. A Movie Capital (1991) — Self
  7. Japanese Summers of a Filipino Fundoshi (1996) — Himself
  8. I am Blushing (1981) — Kidlat, the driver
  9. First Light (2026) — Diwa
  10. Illogical Patterns of a Logical Parallelism (2011)
  11. Lucid (2023) — Himself
  12. Shaman Wars (1982) — Shaman
  13. A Man Who Became Cinema (2018)
  14. Balikbayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux III (2015)
  15. BalikBayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux VI (2017)
  16. Ode to Dreamers (2015) — Panaginip Pictures CEO
  17. Bulakna (2025)
  18. Shaman Showman: The Life and Work of Roberto Villanueva
  19. Cinemartyrs (2025) — Tatay Kidlat