Known For
Directing
Born
Oct 03, 1942
Place of Birth
Baguio City, Benguet, Philippines
Credits
34 titles
Kidlat Tahimik
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
Lucid
Himself
Kabunyan's Journey to Liwanag
Director
Journey
Director
A Man Who Became Cinema
BalikBayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux VI
Ode to Dreamers
Panaginip Pictures CEO
Balikbayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux III
Illogical Patterns of a Logical Parallelism
Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement
Himself
Roofs of the World! Unite!
Writer
Video-Palaro: The Video Diaries of Kidlat Tahimik
Director
Our Film-Grimage to Guimaras
Director
Some More Rice
Director
Holy Wood
Director
José Rizal
La Liga Filipina Guest
Japanese Summers of a Filipino Fundoshi
Himself
Celebrating the Year 2021, Today
Director
Our Bomb Mission in Hiroshima
Director
Why Is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow?
Director of Photography
Orbit 50: Letters to My 3 Sons
Director
A Movie Capital
Self
Takedera mon amour: Diary of a Bamboo Connection
Writer
Memories of Overdevelopment
Director
Shaman Wars
Shaman
I am Blushing
Kidlat, the driver
Turumba
Director
Yan Ki Made in Hongkong
Director
Perfumed Nightmare
Kidlat
Who Invented The Yoyo? Who Invented The Moon Buggy?
Kidlat
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Hombrecito, the Indian
Shaman Showman: The Life and Work of Roberto Villanueva