Who Invented the Yo-Yo? Who Invented Kidlat Tahimik?

Young Kidlat is a jeepney driver in the Philippines who wants to emigrate to America to become an astronaut.

Tahimik’s fascination with interplanetary travel has led him to start a Filipino space program in the fictional German town where he lives.

Tahimik’s magnum opus, I Am Furious Yellow a.k.a. Why is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow? is an epic film diary spanning the 1980s.

This mock historical epic-cum-freeform documentary tells the story of Enrique of Malacca, who was arguably the first person to circumnavigate the earth.

Set in a tiny Philippine village, the film focuses on a family that makes paper-mache animals to sell during the traditional Turumba festivities.

Kidlat Tahimik’s son, Kabunyan de Guia, embarks on a journey from his hometown of Baguio to the southern urban city of Davao.

Mr. Tahimik performed himself in order to show his own thinking about the different views of the body held by the "East" and the "West."

Experimental documentary about roof-making.

The film focuses on Ifugao wood carving, a craft for which they are widely-known.

The film deals with bamboo, a natural and frequently-used material in traditional Asian architecture and furniture.

Short film about the sons of the director.

This time, Tahimik journeys along the famous Philippines Guimaras island, he seems to follow a certain ritual by cutting long hair, drifting on the sea.

Essay film about rice farming and Kurosawa's Seven Samurai.

A man plants trees around the world.

Film director, screenwriter and an actor whose films are usually associated with the Third Cinema movement and with the criticism of Neo-colonialism. Kidlat Tahimik is one of the most acclaimed Philippine filmmakers, a laureate of the “Plaridel honorarium for Independent Cinema”, whom many of his colleagues and film critics call the “father of Philippine independent cinema”...