Kidlat Tahimik
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- October 3, 1942
- Place of birth
- Baguio City, Benguet, Philippines
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".
Movies with Kidlat Tahimik
- The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser 1974 · ★ 7.3
- Perfumed Nightmare 1979 · ★ 7.2
- José Rizal 1998 · ★ 8.8
- Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement 2010 · ★ 4.8
- Who Invented The Yoyo? Who Invented The Moon Buggy? 1979 · ★ 7.5
- A Movie Capital 1991 · ★ 6.0
- Japanese Summers of a Filipino Fundoshi 1996 · ★ 8.0
- I am Blushing 1981 · ★ 9.0
- First Light 2026 · ★ 8.0
- Illogical Patterns of a Logical Parallelism 2011
- Lucid 2023
- Shaman Wars 1982
- A Man Who Became Cinema 2018
- Balikbayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux III 2015
- BalikBayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux VI 2017
- Ode to Dreamers 2015
- Bulakna 2025
- Cinemartyrs 2025
- Tata Picks Up the Landscape 2023
- Tata Cuts Down the Timescape 2023
Movies directed by Kidlat Tahimik
- Perfumed Nightmare 1979 · ★ 7.2
- Turumba 1981 · ★ 6.2
- Why Is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow? 1994 · ★ 6.2
- Who Invented The Yoyo? Who Invented The Moon Buggy? 1979 · ★ 7.5
- Some More Rice 2005 · ★ 6.0
- Japanese Summers of a Filipino Fundoshi 1996 · ★ 8.0
- Journey 2019 · ★ 6.0
- Balikbayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux III 2015
- Yan Ki Made in Hongkong 1980
- Takedera mon amour: Diary of a Bamboo Connection 1991
- Our Film-Grimage to Guimaras 2005
- Roofs of the World! Unite! 2006
- Memories of Overdevelopment 1984
- Orbit 50: Letters to My 3 Sons 1992
- Celebrating the Year 2021, Today 1995
- Holy Wood 2003
- BalikBayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux VI 2017
- Video-Palaro: The Video Diaries of Kidlat Tahimik 2006
- Our Bomb Mission in Hiroshima 1995
- Kabunyan's Journey to Liwanag 2020