Kidlat Tahimik Movies

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...

Short film about the sons of the director.

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

An observation of post-colonial economic relations through the intersecting trajectories of two Filipino women: one preparing to leave her native...

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...

Documentary about the meaning of bamboo.

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...