Kidlat Tahimik

Known for DirectingBorn 1942-10-03 (age 83)Baguio City, Benguet, Philippines

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".Read more

Movies & web series

I am Blushing

José Rizal

First Light

Japanese Summers of a Filipino Fundoshi

Who Invented The Yoyo? Who Invented The Moon Buggy?

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

Perfumed Nightmare

Journey

Why Is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow?

Some More Rice

Turumba

A Movie Capital

Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement

Bulakna

Cinemartyrs

Lucid

Kabunyan's Journey to Liwanag

A Man Who Became Cinema

BalikBayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux VI

Balikbayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux III

Ode to Dreamers

Illogical Patterns of a Logical Parallelism

Roofs of the World! Unite!

Video-Palaro: The Video Diaries of Kidlat Tahimik

Our Film-Grimage to Guimaras

Holy Wood

Celebrating the Year 2021, Today

Our Bomb Mission in Hiroshima

Orbit 50: Letters to My 3 Sons

Takedera mon amour: Diary of a Bamboo Connection

Memories of Overdevelopment

Shaman Wars

Yan Ki Made in Hongkong

Shaman Showman: The Life and Work of Roberto Villanueva