Full Name Eric de Guia Spouse Katrin De Guia Role Film director | Name Kidlat Tahimik Nationality Filipino Movies Perfumed Nightmare | |
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Born October 3, 1942 (age 81) ( 1942-10-03 ) Baguio, Benguet, Commonwealth of the Philippines Occupation movie director, film maker, writer and actor Children Kidlat de Guia, Kawayan de Guia, Kabunyan de Guia Parents Victor De Guia, Virginia de Guia Education University of the Philippines, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania Similar Ang Kiukok, Benedicto Cabrera, Ishmael Bernal | ||
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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 Cinema movement through their critiques of neocolonialism.
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- sharebaguio kidlat tahimik hitting the cultural brakes
- Perfumed Nightmare 1978
- Education
- Influences
- Personal life
- Director
- Writer
- Producer
- Actor
- Awards
- References
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".
Perfumed Nightmare (1978)
Education
Tahimik attended the University of the Philippines, where he was a member of the Student Council, then known as the University Student Union, from 1962 to 1963. While attending the university he became a member of the Upsilon Sigma Phi fraternity.
Kidlat Tahimik studied at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, earning a Master in Business Administration, and worked as a researcher for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris from 1968 to 1972.
Influences
Tahimik grew up in Baguio City, Philippines, a summer resort community established in the presence of several U.S. Military bases. This experience was a weighty influence on the themes of his films, most notably the semi-autobiographical Perfumed Nightmare (1977) and Turumba (1981).
The latter of these two films provides some insight into the circumstances that brought him to Europe and into the presence of filmmaker Werner Herzog, who along with director Francis Ford Coppola and his American Zoetrope studio, was instrumental in helping to release Perfumed Nightmare.
Personal life
Kidlat lives in a 4-storey home in Benguet, Philippines with his wife, German artist and writer Katrin De Guia, and their children Kidlat Tahimik Jr., Kawayan Thor Kalayaan and Kabunyan De Guia.
In February 2004 a fire was reported to have spread in their home. The family was able to escape safely, but the director's film stock and collection of art and artifacts were destroyed.
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