KIDLAT TAHIMIK RETROSPECTIVE

Jan12-15 2009, UP

THE INDIO-GENIUS CALENDAR: Jan12-15
UP Film Center (except for the Afterparty at Magnet Katipunan)

MONDAY 6-10pm
6-8pm: Opening
8-10pm: Why Is Yellow The Middle Of The Rainbow / Bakit Dilaw Ang Gitna Ng Bahaghari

TUESDAY 6-10pm
My Bahag My Love / Bahag Ko Mahal Ko
Holy Wood / Banal Kahoy
Who Invented The Yoyo? Who Invented The Moon Buggy?

WEDNESDAY 6-10pm
Takadera Mon Amour
Orbit 50
Celebrating 2021 Today
Our Bomb Mission to Hiroshima
Turumba

WEDNESDAY: 10pm-1am at Mag:net Katipunan
Kidlat Tahimik Retrospective AFTERPARTY
Featuring: khavndelacruz.com, Tom Estrella Sr. & The Shadows, Norman Wilwayco, Donna Miranda, Roberto Nicolas, Angelo Suarez, Tengal, Earth Jazz Trio, Joel Toledo, Ledh, Taggu N'Dios, Arvie Bartolome, Roxlee

THURSDAY 5-10pm
A Talk w/ Kidlat Tahimik
Memories of Overdevelopment
Some More Rice
Dalawang Atang at Isang Pagnakaw
Roof / Bubong
Perfumed Nightmare / Mababangong Bangungot


“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”)

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-autobiographical 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!)

Spread the word. See you there. And a happy new year!