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KIDLAT TAHIMIK RETROSPECTIVE
Jan12-15 2009, UP Film Center

“The world knows Kidlat Tahimik for “Perfumed
Nightmare” and “Turumba.” But his oeuvre is vast and
varied but all encoded with his uncompromising
manifesto on filmmaking and Third World cinema. Here
is the primordial muck of independent cinema. Take a
deep, long dip.” (Dodo Dayao, “Piling-piling
Pelikula,” pelikula.blogspot. com)

You are invited to the OPENING NIGHT of the Kidlat
Tahimik Retrospective:
January 12, 2009, Monday, 6:00pm.
Opening Film: “Why Is Yellow The Middle Of The
Rainbow” aka “Bakit Yellow Ang Gitna Ng Bahaghari” aka
“I Am Furious… Yellow” (1994)
Guest starring: Andrei Tarkovsky

VENUE:
Ishmael Bernal Gallery
UP Film Center aka UP Cine Adarna
University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City

DATE & TIME:
January 12-15, 2009, Monday-Thursday. 5:30pm onwards.

TICKETS: P50 only

PRESENTED by UP Film Institute with .MOV International
Digital Film Festival, UP Silip, UP Cineaste, UP
Cinema, UP Cast, Mighty Bhutens, & Filmless Films

“Perfumed Nightmare” was unforgettable. And so is its
creator, Kidlat Tahimik. Born Eric Oteyza de Guia in
1942. Self-taught cineaste. Primitive filmmaker.
Fiercely anti-commercial. Advocate of what he calls
the Pinoy indio-genius. This we do by slaying the
cultural father that is Hollywood. Breaking out of the
colonial cocoon,as it were An indefatigable indie, he
churns out film after film after film to this day. His
praxis is to dig out his sariling duende, buried alive
by education, and setting it free. (Khavn De La Cruz)

CONTACT:
Mobile: 0915-6769488
Email: ktretro2009@ gmail.com

LINKS:
http://ktretro2009. multiply. com/
http://www.movfest. com/

YOUTUBE:
http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=xP5UQGfVvrQ
http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=3GJo5n0MpTQ
http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=NqcAiAsgqSY
http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=vI-WMhh_ IHA
http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=v_5q7Ionl28
http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=4wzaUK1ZZ1M
http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=Rqy5JPI9MsE
http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=POttb8dTvBQ

BIOGRAPHY
Eric de Guia (born October 3, 1942 in Baguio City),
better known as Kidlat Tahimik, is a filmmaker,
writer, artist and actor whose films are commonly
associated through their critiques of neocolonialism
with the Third World Cinema movement.
Tahimik studied at the University of Pennsylvania' s
Wharton School of Business, earned a Master in
Business Administration, and worked as a researcher
for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development (OECD) in Paris from 1968 to 1972 before
"returning home to be a filmmaker and ending as a
G-stringed (bahag) adopted son of Ifugao."
Tahimik grew up in Baguio City, Philippines, a summer
resort community established in the presence of
several U.S. Military bases. This experience was a
weighty influence on the themes of his films, most
notably the semi-autobiographic al Perfumed Nightmare
(1977) and Turumba (1981). That latter of these two
provides some insight into the circumstances that
brought him to Europe and into the presence of
filmmaker Werner Herzog, who along with director
Francis Ford Coppola and his American Zoetrope Films
was instrumental in helping to release Perfumed
Nightmare in America. This groundbreaking film went on
to win the international film critics jury prize at
the Berlin Film festival, as well as the Catholic Jury
Prize and the Ecumenical Jury prize.

FILMOGRAPHY
1977- Mababangong Bangungot aka Perfumed Nightmare
1979 - Sinong Lumikha Ng Yoyo? Sinong Lumikha Ng Moon
Buggy? aka Who Invented The Yoyo? Who Invented The
Moon Buggy?
1980 - Ang Balikbayan aka Memories of Overdevelopment
1982 - Yanki: Made in Hongkong
1983 - Turumba
1983-1994 - Bakit Yellow ang Gitna ng Bahaghari? aka
Why Is Yellow The Middle Of The Rainbow aka I Am
Furious…Yellow
1987-1989 - Takadera Mon Amour
1990-1992 - Orbit 50 aka Letters to my Three Sons
1995 - Our Bomb Mission To Hiroshima
1996 - Bahag ko, Mahal ko aka Japanese Summers of a
Filipino Fundoshi
2000 - Banal-Kahoy aka Holy Wood
2003 - Aqua Planet
2005 - Some More Rice
2005 - Dalawang Atang at Isang Pagnakaw
2007 - Bubong (Roofs of the World! Unite!)

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