Kidlat Tahimik

Widely considered the ‘father of independent cinema’ in the Philippines, 1 Kidlat Tahimik made his first film Mababangong Bangungot ( Perfumed Nightmare , 1977) with expired film stock, discarded by a German film school. 2 Realised with a budget of just 10 000 deutschmarks (then about $4 000USD), 3 Perfumed Nightmare eventually premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Prix de la Critique Internationale from the Fédération Internationale de la Presse…