KIDLAT TAHIMIK RETROSPECTIVE

KIDLAT TAHIMIK RETROSPECTIVE

UP Ishmael Bernal Gallery

January 12-15, 2009, Monday-Thursday. 5:30pm onwards.


You are invited to the OPENING NIGHT of the Kidlat
Tahimik Retrospective:
January 12, 2009, Monday, 6:00pm.


TICKETS: P50 only

PRESENTED by UP Film Institute with .MOV International
Digital Film Festival, UP Silip, UP Cineaste, UP
Cinema, UP Cast, Mighty Bhutens, & Filmless Films



BIOGRAPHY
Eric de Guia (born October 3, 1942 in Baguio City),
better known as Kidlat Tahimik, is a filmmaker,
writer, artist and actor whose films are commonly
associated through their critiques of neocolonialism
with the Third World Cinema movement.
Tahimik studied at the University of Pennsylvania' s
Wharton School of Business, earned 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 before
"returning home to be a filmmaker and ending as a
G-stringed (bahag) adopted son of Ifugao."
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-autobiographic al Perfumed Nightmare
(1977) and Turumba (1981). That latter of these two
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 Films
was instrumental in helping to release Perfumed
Nightmare in America. This groundbreaking film went on
to win the international film critics jury prize at
the Berlin Film festival, as well as the Catholic Jury
Prize and the Ecumenical Jury prize.

FILMOGRAPHY
1977- Mababangong Bangungot aka Perfumed Nightmare
1979 - Sinong Lumikha Ng Yoyo? Sinong Lumikha Ng Moon
Buggy? aka Who Invented The Yoyo? Who Invented The
Moon Buggy?
1980 - Ang Balikbayan aka Memories of Overdevelopment
1982 - Yanki: Made in Hongkong
1983 - Turumba
1983-1994 - Bakit Yellow ang Gitna ng Bahaghari? aka
Why Is Yellow The Middle Of The Rainbow aka I Am
Furious…Yellow
1987-1989 - Takadera Mon Amour
1990-1992 - Orbit 50 aka Letters to my Three Sons
1995 - Our Bomb Mission To Hiroshima
1996 - Bahag ko, Mahal ko aka Japanese Summers of a
Filipino Fundoshi
2000 - Banal-Kahoy aka Holy Wood
2003 - Aqua Planet
2005 - Some More Rice
2005 - Dalawang Atang at Isang Pagnakaw
2007 - Bubong (Roofs of the World! Unite!)

Spread the word. See you there. And a happy new year!