Kidlat Tahimik
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- October 3, 1942, Baguio City, Benguet, Philippines
- Movies
- 40
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".
Upcoming Kidlat Tahimik Movies
Shaman Showman: The Life and Work of Roberto Villanueva
Release date TBA
Best-Known Movies
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
1974
Perfumed Nightmare
1979
Turumba
1981
José Rizal
1998
Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement
2010
Why Is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow?
1994
Who Invented The Yoyo? Who Invented The Moon Buggy?
1979
A Movie Capital
1991
Japanese Summers of a Filipino Fundoshi
1996
I am Blushing
1981
Filmography
| 2026 | First Light | Diwa |
| 2025 | Cinemartyrs | Tatay Kidlat |
| 2025 | Bulakna | |
| 2023 | Tata Picks Up the Landscape | Self |
| 2023 | Tata Cuts Down the Timescape | Self |
| 2023 | Lucid | Himself |
| 2018 | A Man Who Became Cinema | |
| 2017 | BalikBayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux VI | |
| 2015 | Ode to Dreamers | Panaginip Pictures CEO |
| 2015 | Balikbayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux III | |
| 2011 | Illogical Patterns of a Logical Parallelism | |
| 2010 | Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement | Himself |
| 1998 | José Rizal | La Liga Filipina Guest |
| 1996 | Japanese Summers of a Filipino Fundoshi | Himself |
| 1991 | A Movie Capital | Self |
| 1982 | Shaman Wars | Shaman |
| 1981 | I am Blushing | Kidlat, the driver |
| 1979 | Perfumed Nightmare | Kidlat |
| 1979 | Who Invented The Yoyo? Who Invented The Moon Buggy? | Kidlat |
| 1974 | The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser | Hombrecito, the Indian |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2020 | Kabunyan's Journey to Liwanag | Director |
| 2019 | Journey | Director, Screenplay |
| 2017 | BalikBayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux VI | Director |
| 2015 | Balikbayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux III | Director |
| 2006 | Roofs of the World! Unite! | Writer, Director |
| 2006 | Video-Palaro: The Video Diaries of Kidlat Tahimik | Director |
| 2005 | Our Film-Grimage to Guimaras | Director, Writer |
| 2005 | Some More Rice | Director, Writer |
| 2003 | Holy Wood | Director, Writer |
| 1996 | Japanese Summers of a Filipino Fundoshi | Director, Writer |
| 1995 | Celebrating the Year 2021, Today | Director, Writer |
| 1995 | Our Bomb Mission in Hiroshima | Director |
| 1994 | Why Is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow? | Writer, Director |
| 1992 | Orbit 50: Letters to My 3 Sons | Director, Writer |
| 1991 | Takedera mon amour: Diary of a Bamboo Connection | Writer, Director |
| 1984 | Memories of Overdevelopment | Director, Writer |
| 1981 | Turumba | Director, Writer |
| 1980 | Yan Ki Made in Hongkong | Writer, Director |
| 1979 | Perfumed Nightmare | Director, Writer, Producer, Screenplay |
| 1979 | Who Invented The Yoyo? Who Invented The Moon Buggy? | Writer, Director |
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