Kidlat Tahimik Movies

  • 1992
    Orbit 50: Letters to My 3 Sons

    Orbit 50: Letters to My 3 Sons

    Orbit 50: Letters to My 3 Sons

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    Short film about the sons of the director.

    Orbit 50: Letters to My 3 Sons
  • 1991
    Takedera mon amour: Diary of a Bamboo Connection

    Takedera mon amour: Diary of a Bamboo Connection

    Takedera mon amour: Diary of a Bamboo Connection

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    Documentary about the meaning of bamboo.

    Takedera mon amour: Diary of a Bamboo Connection
  • 2006
    Video-Palaro: The Video Diaries of Kidlat Tahimik

    Video-Palaro: The Video Diaries of Kidlat Tahimik

    Video-Palaro: The Video Diaries of Kidlat Tahimik

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    Produced over 15 years for the JVC-sponsored Tokyo Video Festival, Tahimik’s Video Diaries offers a lovely set of accents to his longer 16mm...

    Video-Palaro: The Video Diaries of Kidlat Tahimik
  • 1996
    Japanese Summers of a Filipino Fundoshi

    Japanese Summers of a Filipino Fundoshi

    Japanese Summers of a Filipino Fundoshi

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    Kidlat Tahimik, a director and performer, sought to recreate relations between the body and filmed image seen through "Asian eyes." This...

    Japanese Summers of a Filipino Fundoshi
  • 2018
    A Man Who Became Cinema

    A Man Who Became Cinema

    A Man Who Became Cinema

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    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...

    A Man Who Became Cinema
  • 2020
    Kabunyan's Journey to Liwanag

    Kabunyan's Journey to Liwanag

    Kabunyan's Journey to Liwanag

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

    Kabunyan's Journey to Liwanag
  • 1984
    Memories of Overdevelopment

    Memories of Overdevelopment

    Memories of Overdevelopment

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    A philippine slave travels around the world. An early version of the story Tahimik used for Balikbayan.

    Memories of Overdevelopment
  • 2003
    Holy Wood

    Holy Wood

    Holy Wood

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    The film illustrates the philosophy of “giving back” to nature, and documents the pinugo, the unique system of sustainable land...

    Holy Wood
  • 1995
    Our Bomb Mission in Hiroshima

    Our Bomb Mission in Hiroshima

    Our Bomb Mission in Hiroshima

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    An unexploded bomb that the Americans dropped in the Philippines in their war against the Japanese was found in a river. It was transformed into a...

    Our Bomb Mission in Hiroshima
  • 1982
    Shaman Wars

    Shaman Wars

    Shaman Wars

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    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,...

    Shaman Wars