Directing

Kidlat Tahimik

Born 1942-10-03

Baguio City, Benguet, Philippines

Department: 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".

2010

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Filmography & Credits

Complete career catalog (68 titles)

Title	Character / Role	Type	Year
First Light	Diwa	Movie	2026
Cinemartyrs	Tatay Kidlat	Movie	2025
Bulakna	Self / Appearance	Movie	2025
Lucid	Himself	Movie	2023
Kabunyan's Journey to Liwanag	Director	Movie	2020
Journey	Director	Movie	2019
Journey	Screenplay	Movie	2019
A Man Who Became Cinema	Self / Appearance	Movie	2018
BalikBayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux VI	Self / Appearance	Movie	2017
BalikBayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux VI	Director	Movie	2017
Ode to Dreamers	Panaginip Pictures CEO	Movie	2015
Balikbayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux III	Self / Appearance	Movie	2015
Balikbayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux III	Director	Movie	2015
Illogical Patterns of a Logical Parallelism	Self / Appearance	Movie	2011
Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement	Himself	Movie	2010
Roofs of the World! Unite!	Writer	Movie	2006
Roofs of the World! Unite!	Director	Movie	2006
Video-Palaro: The Video Diaries of Kidlat Tahimik	Director	Movie	2006
Our Film-Grimage to Guimaras	Director	Movie	2005
Our Film-Grimage to Guimaras	Writer	Movie	2005
Some More Rice	Director	Movie	2005
Some More Rice	Writer	Movie	2005
Holy Wood	Director	Movie	2003
Holy Wood	Writer	Movie	2003
José Rizal	La Liga Filipina Guest	Movie	1998
Japanese Summers of a Filipino Fundoshi	Himself	Movie	1996
Japanese Summers of a Filipino Fundoshi	Director	Movie	1996
Japanese Summers of a Filipino Fundoshi	Writer	Movie	1996
Japanese Summers of a Filipino Fundoshi	Director of Photography	Movie	1996
Celebrating the Year 2021, Today	Director	Movie	1995
Celebrating the Year 2021, Today	Writer	Movie	1995
Our Bomb Mission in Hiroshima	Director	Movie	1995
Why Is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow?	Director of Photography	Movie	1994
Why Is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow?	Writer	Movie	1994
Why Is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow?	Director	Movie	1994
Why Is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow?	Editor	Movie	1994
Orbit 50: Letters to My 3 Sons	Director	Movie	1992
Orbit 50: Letters to My 3 Sons	Writer	Movie	1992
A Movie Capital	Self	Movie	1991
Takedera mon amour: Diary of a Bamboo Connection	Writer	Movie	1991
Takedera mon amour: Diary of a Bamboo Connection	Director	Movie	1991
Memories of Overdevelopment	Director	Movie	1984
Memories of Overdevelopment	Writer	Movie	1984
Shaman Wars	Shaman	Movie	1982
I am Blushing	Kidlat, the driver	Movie	1981
Turumba	Director	Movie	1981
Turumba	Writer	Movie	1981
Yan Ki Made in Hongkong	Writer	Movie	1980
Yan Ki Made in Hongkong	Director	Movie	1980
Perfumed Nightmare	Kidlat	Movie	1979
Perfumed Nightmare	Director	Movie	1979
Perfumed Nightmare	Editor	Movie	1979
Perfumed Nightmare	Writer	Movie	1979
Perfumed Nightmare	Producer	Movie	1979
Perfumed Nightmare	Director of Photography	Movie	1979
Perfumed Nightmare	Cinematography	Movie	1979
Perfumed Nightmare	Idea	Movie	1979
Perfumed Nightmare	Story	Movie	1979
Perfumed Nightmare	Screenplay	Movie	1979
Perfumed Nightmare	Script	Movie	1979
Who Invented The Yoyo? Who Invented The Moon Buggy?	Kidlat	Movie	1979
Who Invented The Yoyo? Who Invented The Moon Buggy?	Cinematography	Movie	1979
Who Invented The Yoyo? Who Invented The Moon Buggy?	Writer	Movie	1979
Who Invented The Yoyo? Who Invented The Moon Buggy?	Production Design	Movie	1979
Who Invented The Yoyo? Who Invented The Moon Buggy?	Editor	Movie	1979
Who Invented The Yoyo? Who Invented The Moon Buggy?	Director	Movie	1979
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser	Hombrecito, the Indian	Movie	1974
Shaman Showman: The Life and Work of Roberto Villanueva	Self / Appearance	Movie	—