Kidlat Tahimik
Popularity:0.1497
Known For:Directing
Birthday:1942-10-03
Place of Birth:Baguio City, Benguet, Philippines
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Perfumed Nightmare (1979)
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...

Illogical Patterns of a Logical Parallelism (2011)
A silent film by Jet Leyco.

Lucid (2023)
A national artist delivers a powerful message urging us to embrace and celebrate our cultural heritage, highlighting its richness and greatness, and...

Shaman Wars (1982)
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,...

A Man Who Became Cinema (2018)
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...

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
The film follows Kaspar Hauser (Bruno S.), who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy...

Balikbayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux III (2015)
Magellan, the famous navigator, met his untimely death in the Philippines before he could circumnavigate the globe. Ironically, it was his slave and...

A Movie Capital (1991)
This film is a record of the first Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. It reflects the various ways the festival was given shape by...

José Rizal (1998)
Accused of treason, Dr. Jose P. Rizal awaits trial and meets with his colonial government-appointed counsel, Luis Taviel de Andrade. The two build...

BalikBayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux VI (2017)
As the ultimate enfant terrible of Philippine cinema, avant-gardist Kidlat Tahimik refuses to settle on anything, whether it’s the telling of a...

Japanese Summers of a Filipino Fundoshi (1996)
Kidlat Tahimik, a director and performer, sought to recreate relations between the body and filmed image seen through "Asian eyes." This...

I am Blushing (1981)
"I am blushing" - Swedish comedy about a film crew traveling to the Philippines to find environments for a movie.

Ode to Dreamers (2015)
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...

Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement (2010)
Documentary profiling the directors involved in the loose Philippine New Wave filmmaking movement.

Who Invented the Yoyo? Who Invented the Moon Buggy? (1979)
Stuck in the German lands of “Yodelburg,” our hero Kidlat dreams of space and muses on humanity’s endless capacity for creativity,...

Why Is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow? (1994)

Why Is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow? (1994)

Who Invented the Yoyo? Who Invented the Moon Buggy? (1979)

Who Invented the Yoyo? Who Invented the Moon Buggy? (1979)

Who Invented the Yoyo? Who Invented the Moon Buggy? (1979)

Who Invented the Yoyo? Who Invented the Moon Buggy? (1979)

Why Is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow? (1994)

Who Invented the Yoyo? Who Invented the Moon Buggy? (1979)

Why Is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow? (1994)

Balikbayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux III (2015)

Takedera mon amour: Diary of a Bamboo Connection (1991)

Takedera mon amour: Diary of a Bamboo Connection (1991)

Japanese Summers of a Filipino Fundoshi (1996)

Japanese Summers of a Filipino Fundoshi (1996)

BalikBayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux VI (2017)

Japanese Summers of a Filipino Fundoshi (1996)
