Eric de Guia, better known as Kidlat Tahimik, is a film director, writer and actor whose films are commonly associated with the Third Cinema movement through their critiques of neocolonialism.
Education
Tahimik attended the University of the Philippines, where he was a member of the Student Council, then known as the University Student Union, from 1962 to 1963. While attending the university he became a member of the Upsilon Sigma Phi fraternity.
Kidlat Tahimik studied at the University of Pennsylvania"s Wharton School, earning a Master in Business Administration, and worked as a researcher for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (Organization of European Cooperation and Development) in Paris from 1968 to 1972.
Career
One of the most prominent names in the Filipino film industry, he has garnered various accolades locally and internationally, including a Plaridel honorarium for Independent Cinema. He is dubbed by fellow filmmakers and critics as the "Father of Philippine Independent Cinema". Tahimik grew up in Baguio City, Philippines, a summer resort community established in the presence of several United States. Military bases.
This experience was a weighty influence on the themes of his films, most notably the semi-autobiographical Perfumed Nightmare (1977) and
The latter of these two films 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 studio, was instrumental in helping to release Perfumed Nightmare.
Membership
While attending the university he became a member of the Upsilon Sigma Phi fraternity.
