Kidlat Tahimik
Directing
Born 1942-10-03
Baguio City, Benguet, Philippines
34 credits
National Artist of the Philippines 1
Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize 1
Awards
Won 1 National Artist of the Philippines Award
National Artist of the Philippines 1 won
- 2018 National Artist of the Philippines Won
Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize 1 won
- 2012 Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize Won
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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".
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Filmography
Directing
16 credits
Turumba
Our Film-Grimage to Guimaras
Roofs of the World! Unite!
Yan Ki Made in Hongkong
Journey
Balikbayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux III
Kabunyan's Journey to Liwanag
BalikBayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux VI
Takedera mon amour: Diary of a Bamboo Connection
Holy Wood
Orbit 50: Letters to My 3 Sons
Memories of Overdevelopment
Some More Rice
Celebrating the Year 2021, Today
Video-Palaro: The Video Diaries of Kidlat Tahimik
Our Bomb Mission in Hiroshima
Writing
14 credits
Japanese Summers of a Filipino Fundoshi
Turumba
Who Invented The Yoyo? Who Invented The Moon Buggy?
Our Film-Grimage to Guimaras
Roofs of the World! Unite!
Yan Ki Made in Hongkong
Why Is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow?
Journey
Takedera mon amour: Diary of a Bamboo Connection
Holy Wood
Orbit 50: Letters to My 3 Sons
Memories of Overdevelopment
Some More Rice
Celebrating the Year 2021, Today
Acting
13 credits
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Japanese Summers of a Filipino Fundoshi
A Movie Capital
Perfumed Nightmare
José Rizal
Who Invented The Yoyo? Who Invented The Moon Buggy?
Lucid
Shaman Wars
First Light
Cinemartyrs
I am Blushing
Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement
Ode to Dreamers
Other credits
6 credits
Bulakna
Perfumed Nightmare
A Man Who Became Cinema
Shaman Showman: The Life and Work of Roberto Villanueva
Why Is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow?
Illogical Patterns of a Logical Parallelism
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