Kidlat Tahimik
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".
20 directing credits · 19 acting credits
Directing · 20
Perfumed Nightmare
1979
Who Invented The Yoyo? Who Invented The Moon Buggy?
1979
Journey
2019
Why Is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow?
1994
Yan Ki Made in Hongkong
1980
Japanese Summers of a Filipino Fundoshi
1996
Balikbayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux III
2015
Our Bomb Mission in Hiroshima
1995
Turumba
1981
Holy Wood
2003
BalikBayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux VI
2017
Video-Palaro: The Video Diaries of Kidlat Tahimik
2006
Kabunyan's Journey to Liwanag
2020
Memories of Overdevelopment
1984
Takedera mon amour: Diary of a Bamboo Connection
1991
Celebrating the Year 2021, Today
1995
Orbit 50: Letters to My 3 Sons
1992
Our Film-Grimage to Guimaras
2005
Some More Rice
2005
Roofs of the World! Unite!
2006
Acting · 19
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
1974
José Rizal
1998
Perfumed Nightmare
1979
I am Blushing
1981
Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement
2010
Cinemartyrs
2025
Bulakna
2025
A Movie Capital
1991
Who Invented The Yoyo? Who Invented The Moon Buggy?
1979
A Man Who Became Cinema
2018
First Light
2026
Illogical Patterns of a Logical Parallelism
2011
Japanese Summers of a Filipino Fundoshi
1996
Balikbayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux III
2015
Lucid
2023
BalikBayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux VI
2017
Shaman Showman: The Life and Work of Roberto Villanueva
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Shaman Wars
1982
Ode to Dreamers
2015