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