Kidlat Tahimik

Experimental documentary about roof-making.

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

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

A man plants trees around the world.

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 ...

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 ...

Short film about the sons of the director.

Documentary about the meaning of bamboo.

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

Kadu, a boy from Pakil, Laguna, experiences the dissolution of tradition as it gives way to capitalism in the form of Madame, a foreigner who ...