Kidlat Tahimik Movies

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

A silent film by Jet Leyco.

Magellan, the famous navigator, met his untimely death in the Philippines before he could circumnavigate the globe. Ironically, it was his slave and...

A man plants trees around the world.

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...

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...

Experimental documentary about roof-making.

Inspired by a trip to Monument Valley and the Navajo Nation while en route to the Telluride Film Festival, Tahimik and his eldest son Kidlat Gottlieb...

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

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...