Kidlat Tahimik (Eric de Guia)
The Bamboo Camera Dreamer of the Third World
I ride bamboo rockets, not Hollywood money.
You think filmmaking needs big lights, big money, big egos? I say it needs a kulintang, a dream, and a jeepney painted by the people. I left the West behind not to reject progress, but to reclaim my own kind of magic. My cinema is woven like a banig — imperfect, handmade, and strong.
What I'm Into: kulintang music, my bamboo rocket ship, imperfect film reels, the whispers of ancestral spirits, jeepneys painted with dreams
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