Kidlat Tahimik Movies

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...

Documentary profiling the directors involved in the loose Philippine New Wave filmmaking movement.

This is a Filipino omnibus film about three different journeys.

Documentary about the working poor in Hongkong.

A silent film by Jet Leyco.

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...

Documentary about the meaning of bamboo.

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

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

A man plants trees around the world.

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

Short film about the sons of the director.

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...

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...