Kidlat Tahimik
Directing
1942-10-03 · 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".
Filmography
First Light
2026 · Movie
Cinemartyrs
2025 · Movie
Bulakna
2025 · Movie
Tata Cuts Down the Timescape
2023 · Movie
Tata Picks Up the Landscape
2023 · Movie
Lucid
2023 · Movie
Kabunyan's Journey to Liwanag
2020 · Movie
Journey
2019 · Movie
A Man Who Became Cinema
2018 · Movie
BalikBayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux VI
2017 · Movie
Ode to Dreamers
2015 · Movie
Balikbayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux III
2015 · Movie
Illogical Patterns of a Logical Parallelism
2011 · Movie
Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement
2010 · Movie
Roofs of the World! Unite!
2006 · Movie
Video-Palaro: The Video Diaries of Kidlat Tahimik
2006 · Movie
Our Film-Grimage to Guimaras
2005 · Movie
Some More Rice
2005 · Movie
Holy Wood
2003 · Movie
José Rizal
1998 · Movie
Japanese Summers of a Filipino Fundoshi
1996 · Movie
Celebrating the Year 2021, Today
1995 · Movie
Our Bomb Mission in Hiroshima
1995 · Movie
Why Is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow?
1994 · Movie
Orbit 50: Letters to My 3 Sons
1992 · Movie
A Movie Capital
1991 · Movie
Takedera mon amour: Diary of a Bamboo Connection
1991 · Movie
Memories of Overdevelopment
1984 · Movie
Shaman Wars
1982 · Movie
I am Blushing
1981 · Movie
Turumba
1981 · Movie
Yan Ki Made in Hongkong
1980 · Movie
Perfumed Nightmare
1979 · Movie
Who Invented The Yoyo? Who Invented The Moon Buggy?
1979 · Movie
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
1974 · Movie
Shaman Showman: The Life and Work of Roberto Villanueva
Movie