奇拉‧塔希米克，原名艾瑞克‧德吉亞，一九四二年生於菲律賓碧瑤市。他是華頓商學院MBA、巴黎經濟學家，卻在一九七二年撕掉文憑，投身電影創作。用一萬美金預算和過期膠捲，他拍出震撼世界的《芳香的噩夢》，在柏林影展獲獎，被譽為第三世界電影的里程碑。

他的創作哲學是「一杯汽油的電影製作法」——用最少資源創造最大藝術價值。沒有劇本、沒有專業演員，他用「卡帕卡帕」(摸索前進)的方式即興創作，讓真實生活成為敘事的一部分。他的電影批判新殖民主義，呼喚文化覺醒，用幽默與詩意呈現菲律賓的聲音。

《圖倫巴》講述傳統手工藝被資本主義侵蝕的故事，《返鄉者一號》耗時四十五年完成，重新詮釋麥哲倫環球航行的歷史。二零一八年，他榮獲菲律賓國家藝術家獎，被尊為「獨立電影之父」。從建造竹製電影院到經營素食餐廳，從裝置藝術到社區營造，塔希米克用一生證明：藝術可以是抵抗，創作可以是革命，用最簡單的方式也能說出最深刻的真相。

Kidlat Tahimik, born Eric de Guia in nineteen forty-two in Baguio City, Philippines, is a revolutionary filmmaker who transformed from Wharton MBA and Paris economist to barefoot independent cinema pioneer. In nineteen seventy-two, he dramatically tore up his business school diploma, rejecting Western development models to pursue artistic creation and rediscover his cultural roots.

With just ten thousand dollars and expired film stock discarded by a German film school, he created the groundbreaking film Perfumed Nightmare in nineteen seventy-seven. This semi-autobiographical masterpiece won three awards at the Berlin International Film Festival, establishing him as a landmark figure in Third Cinema movement. His cups-of-gas filmmaking philosophy uses minimal resources to create maximum artistic value, with no scripts, no professional actors, and a kapa-kapa approach of improvisation that lets real life shape the narrative.

His films critique neocolonialism while celebrating Filipino culture with humor and poetic vision. Turumba explores capitalism's invasion of traditional handicraft, while Balikbayan Number One took forty-five years to complete, reinterpreting the history of Magellan's circumnavigation. In twenty eighteen, he received the National Artist of the Philippines award for Film, earning the title Father of Philippine Independent Cinema. From building bamboo cinemas to running vegetarian restaurants, from installation art to community building, Tahimik proves that art can be resistance, creation can be revolution, and the simplest methods can express the most profound truths.

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