Kidlat Tahimik

Directing Oct 3, 1942 (84 years old) 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".

19 Acting Credits

20 Crew Credits

Kidlat Tahimik

Acting

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

Perfumed Nightmare

José Rizal

Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement

Who Invented The Yoyo? Who Invented The Moon Buggy?

A Movie Capital

Japanese Summers of a Filipino Fundoshi

I am Blushing

Illogical Patterns of a Logical Parallelism

Lucid

Shaman Wars

A Man Who Became Cinema

Balikbayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux III

BalikBayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux VI

Ode to Dreamers

Bulakna

Shaman Showman: The Life and Work of Roberto Villanueva

First Light

Cinemartyrs

Crew

Perfumed Nightmare

Turumba

Why Is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow?

Who Invented The Yoyo? Who Invented The Moon Buggy?

Some More Rice

Japanese Summers of a Filipino Fundoshi

Balikbayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux III

Yan Ki Made in Hongkong

Takedera mon amour: Diary of a Bamboo Connection

Roofs of the World! Unite!

Our Film-Grimage to Guimaras

Celebrating the Year 2021, Today