
Kidlat Tahimik
Known for: Directing
Born: October 3, 1942
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 filmma…
Known for

Perfumed Nightmare
1979

Lucid
2023

Shaman Wars
1982

BalikBayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux VI
2017

Who Invented The Yoyo? Who Invented The Moon Buggy?
1979

Illogical Patterns of a Logical Parallelism
2011

Balikbayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux III
2015

Shaman Showman: The Life and Work of Roberto Villanueva

Japanese Summers of a Filipino Fundoshi
1996

Ode to Dreamers
2015

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
1974

Cinemartyrs
2025

A Man Who Became Cinema
2018

A Movie Capital
1991

I am Blushing
1981

First Light
2026

Bulakna
2025

Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement
2010

José Rizal
1998