Directing • AGE 83
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 comm...


First Light
Diwa
2026

Cinemartyrs
Tatay Kidlat
2025

Bulakna
2025

Lucid
Himself
2023

Kabunyan's Journey to Liwanag
Director
2020

Journey
Director
2019

A Man Who Became Cinema
2018

BalikBayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux VI
2017

Ode to Dreamers
Panaginip Pictures CEO
2015

Balikbayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux III
2015

Illogical Patterns of a Logical Parallelism
2011

Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement
Himself
2010

Roofs of the World! Unite!
Director
2006

Video-Palaro: The Video Diaries of Kidlat Tahimik
Director
2006

Our Film-Grimage to Guimaras
Director
2005

Some More Rice
Director
2005

Holy Wood
Director
2003

José Rizal
La Liga Filipina Guest
1998

Japanese Summers of a Filipino Fundoshi
Himself
1996

Celebrating the Year 2021, Today
Director
1995

Our Bomb Mission in Hiroshima
Director
1995

Why Is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow?
Writer
1994

Orbit 50: Letters to My 3 Sons
Director
1992

A Movie Capital
Self
1991

Takedera mon amour: Diary of a Bamboo Connection
Director
1991

Memories of Overdevelopment
Director
1984

Shaman Wars
Shaman
1982

I am Blushing
Kidlat, the driver
1981

Turumba
Director
1981

Yan Ki Made in Hongkong
Director
1980

Perfumed Nightmare
Kidlat
1979

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

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Hombrecito, the Indian
1974

Shaman Showman: The Life and Work of Roberto Villanueva