Kidlat Tahimik Movies

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

Documentary about the meaning of bamboo.

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...

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...

"I am blushing" - Swedish comedy about a film crew traveling to the Philippines to find environments for a movie.

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...

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

This is a Filipino omnibus film about three different journeys.

Short film about the sons of the director.

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...

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

A machine capable of recording ideas directly from the mind is invented, and an out-of-work comedian suffering from depression uses it to learn if he...

A silent film by Jet Leyco.