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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".
Most Popular Kidlat Tahimik Trailers
Total trailers found: 33
01 January 2010
Documentary profiling the directors involved in the loose Philippine New Wave filmmaking movement.
12 October 1981
"I am blushing" - Swedish comedy about a film crew traveling to the Philippines to find environments for a movie.
12 October 1991
This film is a record of the first Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. It reflects the various ways the festival was given shape by nascent global changes embodied by Perestroika, the Tiananmen Square massacre, and many other contemporaneous events.
01 November 1974
The film follows Kaspar Hauser, who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy his time, devoid of all human contact except for a man who wears a black overcoat and top hat who feeds him.
10 February 2015
Magellan, the famous navigator, met his untimely death in the Philippines before he could circumnavigate the globe.
01 January 1991
Documentary about the meaning of bamboo.
01 January 2003
The film illustrates the philosophy of “giving back” to nature, and documents the pinugo, the unique system of sustainable land cultivation developed by the Ifugao to take equal account of forest management and rice growing.
01 January 1992
Short film about the sons of the director.
25 December 1998
Accused of treason, Dr. Jose P. Rizal awaits trial and meets with his colonial government-appointed counsel, Luis Taviel de Andrade.
08 January 1979
Kidlat, a Filipino jeepney driver, is fascinated by the idea of the American space programme and by Western society as a whole.
01 January 2006
Experimental documentary about roof-making.
14 February 2020
Kidlat Tahimik’s son, Kabunyan de Guia, embarks on a journey from his hometown of Baguio to the southern urban city of Davao using an orange minivan and explores other places in the Philippines along the way.
20 January 2017
As the ultimate enfant terrible of Philippine cinema, avant-gardist Kidlat Tahimik refuses to settle on anything, whether it’s the telling of a colonial past, or any version of this film, which he’s been making and revising for nearly four decades.
15 July 2005
Documentary about an oil spill near the Philippines
10 December 2018
Masato Hara made his directorial debut in high school in 1968 and achieved a reputation as a young prodigy.
01 January 1984
A philippine slave travels around the world. An early version of the story Tahimik used for Balikbayan.
01 January 1996
Kidlat Tahimik, a director and performer, sought to recreate relations between the body and filmed image seen through "Asian eyes.
01 January 2005
Essay film about rice farming and Kurosawa's Seven Samurai.
01 January 1995
An unexploded bomb that the Americans dropped in the Philippines in their war against the Japanese was found in a river.
01 January 1995
A man plants trees around the world.
01 January 2006
Produced over 15 years for the JVC-sponsored Tokyo Video Festival, Tahimik’s Video Diaries offers a lovely set of accents to his longer 16mm films.
03 June 2011
A silent film by Jet Leyco.
01 January 1979
Stuck in the German lands of “Yodelburg,” our hero Kidlat dreams of space and muses on humanity’s endless capacity for creativity, whether on the moon or at home in the Philippines.
15 May 1981
Kadu, a boy from Pakil, Laguna, experiences the dissolution of tradition as it gives way to capitalism in the form of Madame, a foreigner who initially came to their village as a customer during the Festival of Turumba.
01 January 1980
Documentary about the working poor in Hongkong.
07 August 2023
A national artist delivers a powerful message urging us to embrace and celebrate our cultural heritage, highlighting its richness and greatness, and encouraging us to avoid being mere imitators of modern society.
10 July 2025
An observation of post-colonial economic relations through the intersecting trajectories of two Filipino women: one preparing to leave her native island to work as a domestic in Europe, the other to return for good.
09 July 1994
Inspired by a trip to Monument Valley and the Navajo Nation while en route to the Telluride Film Festival, Tahimik and his eldest son Kidlat Gottlieb Kalayaan use the "spaghetti machine" (Tahimik's nickname for his Bolex camera) to make their own "spaghetti western.
03 October 2025
A young filmmaker is bent on recreating forgotten massacres from Philippine history, but when she begins shooting at a site where 1,000 men, women, and children were slaughtered, angry spirits are awakened and the lives of her team and the local villagers are put in peril.
03 April 2019
This is a Filipino omnibus film about three different journeys.
24 June 2026
An elderly nun witnesses a young construction worker's fatal accident, compelling her to question the ethical principles of the institution she has devoted her life to.
18 November 1982
Three powerful shamans fight it out in a series of bizarre encounters over an a-go-go dancer. Their final encounter ends disastrously for all three, while the a-go-go-girl ends up acquiring all their powers.
26 May 2015
A machine capable of recording ideas directly from the mind is invented, and an out-of-work comedian suffering from depression uses it to learn if he still has the gift to make people laugh.
