Eric de Guia (born October 3, 1942 in baguio city 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, I have garnered various accolades locally and internationally, including a Plaridel honorarium for Independent Cinema. I have is dubbed by fellow filmmakers and critics as the "Father of Philippine Independent Cinema".
Kidlat Tahimik's son, Kabunyan de Guia, embarks on a journey from his hometown of Baguio to the southern urban city of Davao using an orange minivan and explores other places in the Philippines along the way. ...
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As the ultimate enfant terrible of Philippine cinema, avant-gardist Kidlat Tahimik refuses to settle on anything, whether it's the telling of a colonial past, or any version of this film, which he's been making and revising for nearly four decades. BalikBa ...
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Magellan, the famous navigator, met his untimely death in the Philippines before he could circumnavigate the globe. Ironically, it was his slave and translator Enrique who most likely was the first to achieve the historic feat. ...
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Produced over 15 years for the JVC-sponsored Tokyo Video Festival, Tahimik's Video Diaries offers a lovely set of accents to his longer 16mm films. Tropes and themes that recur throughout the director's career are set in gemlike relief in these brief yet e ...
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The film illustrates the philosophy of "giving back" to nature, and documents the pinugo, the unique system of sustainable land cultivation developed by the Ifugao to take equal account of forest management and rice growing.This diary film also turns into ...
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Kidlat Tahimik, a director and performer, sought to recreate relations between the body and filmed image seen through "Asian eyes." This groundbreaking project took the form of a documentary which Mr. Tahimik directed and in which he performed himself in o ...
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An unexploded bomb that the Americans dropped in the Philippines in their war against the Japanese was found in a river. It was transformed into a bell by the Ifugaos and sent back to Japan. This time as a gesture of peace. ...
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Inspired by a trip to Monument Valley and the Navajo Nation while en route to the Telluride Film Festival, Tahimik and his eldest son Kidlat Gottlieb Kalayaan use the "spaghetti machine" (Tahimik's nickname for his Bolex camera) to make their own "spaghett ...
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Documentary about the meaning of bamboo. ...
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A philippine slave travels around the world. An early version of the story Tahimik used for Balikbayan. ...
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Kadu, a boy from Pakil, Laguna, experiences the dissolution of tradition as it gives way to capitalism in the form of Madame, a foreigner who initially came to their village as a customer during the Festival of Turumba. ...
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Kidlat, a Filipino jeepney driver, is fascinated by the idea of the American space programme and by Western society as a whole. When he moves to Paris, disillusionment sets in as his dreams are gradually shattered. ...
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Stuck in the German lands of "Yodelburg," our hero Kidlat dreams of space and muses on humanity's endless capacity for creativity, whether on the moon or at home in the Philippines. A delightful, self-proclaimed "third-world space spectacle. ...
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Masato Hara made his directorial debut in high school in 1968 and achieved a reputation as a young prodigy. Many years later, he continues to make films and show his old experimental 'live-screening' films, but is saddled with massive debts. This film foll ...
Watch NowAs the ultimate enfant terrible of Philippine cinema, avant-gardist Kidlat Tahimik refuses to settle on anything, whether it's the telling of a colonial past, or any version of this film, which he's been making and revising for nearly four decades. BalikBa ...
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A machine capable of recording ideas directly from the mind is invented, and an out-of-work comedian suffering from depression uses it to learn if he still has the gift to make people laugh. ...
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Documentary profiling the directors involved in the loose Philippine New Wave filmmaking movement. ...
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Accused of treason, Dr. Jose P. Rizal awaits trial and meets with his colonial government-appointed counsel, Luis Taviel de Andrade. The two build the case and arguments for the defense as significant events in the central figure's life prior to his incarc ...
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This film is a record of the first Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. It reflects the various ways the festival was given shape by nascent global changes embodied by Perestroika, the Tiananmen Square massacre, and many other contemporaneous ...
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Three powerful shamans fight it out in a series of bizarre encounters over an a-go-go dancer. Their final encounter ends disastrously for all three, while the a-go-go-girl ends up acquiring all their powers. ...
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"I am blushing" - Swedish comedy about a film crew traveling to the Philippines to find environments for a movie. ...
Watch NowKidlat, a Filipino jeepney driver, is fascinated by the idea of the American space programme and by Western society as a whole. When he moves to Paris, disillusionment sets in as his dreams are gradually shattered. ...
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The film follows Kaspar Hauser, who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy his time, devoid of all human contact except for a man who wears a black overcoat and top hat who feeds him. ...
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