Kidlat Tahimik
Born: 1942-10-03 in Baguio City, Benguet, Philippines
Known For: 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".
Filmography
2025
- Cinemartyrs as Tatay Kidlat
- First Light
- Bulakna
2023
- Lucid as Himself
2020
- Kabunyan's Journey to Liwanag ... (Director)
2019
- Journey ... (Director)
2015
- Ode to Dreamers as Panaginip Pictures CEO
- Balikbayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux III
2010
2006
- Roofs of the World! Unite! ... (Writer)
- Video-Palaro: The Video Diaries of Kidlat Tahimik ... (Director)
2005
- Our Film-Grimage to Guimaras ... (Director)
- Some More Rice ... (Director)
2003
- Holy Wood ... (Director)
1998
- José Rizal as La Liga Filipina Guest
1996
- Japanese Summers of a Filipino Fundoshi as Himself
1995
- Our Bomb Mission in Hiroshima ... (Director)
- Celebrating the Year 2021, Today ... (Director)
1994
- Why Is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow? ... (Director of Photography)
1992
- Orbit 50: Letters to My 3 Sons ... (Director)
1991
- A Movie Capital as Self
- Takedera mon amour: Diary of a Bamboo Connection ... (Writer)
1984
- Memories of Overdevelopment ... (Director)
1982
- Shaman Wars as Shaman
1981
- I am Blushing as Kidlat, the driver
- Turumba ... (Director)
1980
- Yan Ki Made in Hongkong ... (Director)
1979
- Perfumed Nightmare as Kidlat
- Sinong Lumikha ng Yoyo? Sinong Lumikha ng Moon Buggy? as Kidlat
1974
- The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser as Hombrecito, the Indian