Inspired by a trip to Monument Valley and the Navajo Nation while en route to the Telluride Film Festival, Tahimik and his eldest son Kidlat Gottlieb Kalayaan use the "spaghetti machine" (Tahimik's nickname for his Bolex camera) to make their own "spaghetti western." The decade-long path of the film encompasses the assassination of Benigno Aquino and the subsequent Yellow Revolution that brought Corazon Aquino to power, the decommissioning of the US air base Camp John Hay, and the younger Kidlat's trajectory through school, all shown through a Third World Projector salvaged from a junk pile on Navajo land.
Kidlat Tahimik
Writer, Director
Seduced and Abandoned62%
McQueen74%
180° South72%
The Class of ‘9271%
Sherman's March67%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition86%
Night Will Fall76%
Lionel Messi: Destiny78%
Room 23761%
Above Majestic73%
John Candy: I Like Me78%
A Plastic Ocean75%
Public Speaking70%
Directed by John Ford70%
Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me84%
Katy Perry: Part of Me71%
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return67%
My Mom Jayne80%
God Grew Tired of Us72%
