Director
Kidlat Tahimik
84 years · Baguio City, Benguet, Philippines · 35 films
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".
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Best known for
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
1974 · Hombrecito, the Indian
Perfumed Nightmare
1979 · Kidlat, Director
On Kanopy
Turumba
1981 · Director, Writer
On Kanopy
José Rizal
1998 · La Liga Filipina Guest
Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement
2010 · Himself
Why Is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow?
1994 · Writer, Cinematography
Filmography 34
First Light
2026 · Diwa
Cinemartyrs
2025 · Tatay Kidlat
Bulakna
2025 · Actor
Tata Cuts Down the Timescape
2023 · Self
Lucid
2023 · Himself
Kabunyan's Journey to Liwanag
2020 · Director
Journey
2019 · Director, Screenplay
A Man Who Became Cinema
2018 · Actor
BalikBayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux VI
2017 · Actor, Director
On DocAlliance Films
Ode to Dreamers
2015 · Panaginip Pictures CEO
Balikbayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux III
2015 · Actor, Director
Illogical Patterns of a Logical Parallelism
2011 · Actor
Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement
2010 · Himself
Roofs of the World! Unite!
2006 · Director, Writer
Video-Palaro: The Video Diaries of Kidlat Tahimik
2006 · Director
Our Film-Grimage to Guimaras
2005 · Director, Writer
Some More Rice
2005 · Director, Writer
On DocAlliance Films
Holy Wood
2003 · Director, Writer
José Rizal
1998 · La Liga Filipina Guest
Japanese Summers of a Filipino Fundoshi
1996 · Himself, Director
Celebrating the Year 2021, Today
1995 · Director, Writer
Our Bomb Mission in Hiroshima
1995 · Director
Why Is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow?
1994 · Writer, Cinematography
Orbit 50: Letters to My 3 Sons
1992 · Director, Writer