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    Kidlat Tahimik is a renowned Filipino director considered the father of the Philippine independent film movement. He is known for films that critique social issues through gentle humor and ordinary stories. His 1994 film Why is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow? parallels the coming-of-age of his eldest son over 10 years with the rise of democracy in the Philippines. The film is told largely through a dialogue between Tahimik and his son and questions what it means to be post-colonial Filipinos.

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    Kidlat Tahimik is a renowned Filipino director considered the father of the Philippine independent film movement. He is known for films that critique social issues through gentle humor and ordinary stories. His 1994 film Why is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow? parallels the coming-of-age of his eldest son over 10 years with the rise of democracy in the Philippines. The film is told largely through a dialogue between Tahimik and his son and questions what it means to be post-colonial Filipinos.

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    Kidlat Tahimik is a renowned Filipino director considered the father of the Philippine independent film movement. He is known for films that critique social issues through gentle humor and ordinary stories. His 1994 film Why is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow? parallels the coming-of-age of his eldest son over 10 years with the rise of democracy in the Philippines. The film is told largely through a dialogue between Tahimik and his son and questions what it means to be post-colonial Filipinos.

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    Kidlat Tahimik is a renowned Filipino director considered the father of the Philippine independent film movement. He is known for films that critique social issues through gentle humor and ordinary stories. His 1994 film Why is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow? parallels the coming-of-age of his eldest son over 10 years with the rise of democracy in the Philippines. The film is told largely through a dialogue between Tahimik and his son and questions what it means to be post-colonial Filipinos.

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    Kidlat tahimik is a renowned director, actor, screenwriter and producer.

    He is also
    called “the father of the Philippine independent film”, and the founder of the “Philippine
    New Wave”. He is an influential commentator on post-colonialism and the inequality of
    the power in the world, who has been discovered by Wener Herzog from the West,
    claiming that Tahimik’s films from the 70’s can be considered as the most open-minded
    work of their times. Together woth Francis Copolla, Herzog helped him to present his
    most famous, partly autobiographic work Perfumed Nightmare. His mixture of diary film,
    documentary techniques and cinematic essay have already become a film classic. Since
    his debut, Kidlat Tahimik has earned a reputation of an inventor, whose sharp critique of
    the gap between the rich and the poor and other social issues builds on gentle humour,
    ordinariness as well as a passion for children’s games and word puns.

    Film: Why is Yellow the middle of the rainbow? (1994)


    After spending close to a decade in Germany, where he made a trio of successful
    features, Tahimik returned to the Philippines and embarked on a pair of even more
    ambitious projects: the deeply moving, ten-years-in-the-making Why is Yellow the Middle
    of the Rainbow?, which parallels the context of the film, Artist’s background and Society
    and Politics, Economy, and History because it tackles the growth of his eldest son with
    the rise of the democratic movement in the Philippines. The film according to author and
    professor Christopher Pavsek, “defies summary simply because of the sheer volume of
    ground it covers.” The film questions what it means to be a post-colonial Filipino, where
    the director had to wait until his oldest son was old enough to narrate a large portion of
    the film, creating an epic film diary spanning the decade of the 1980’s as seen through
    the eyes of Tahimik and his family. What is singularly unique about this film is the
    pervasive use of children, whose point of view is the focal point of the picture, as the film
    is a coming-of-age essay that coincides with a child growing up, curious and inquisitive,
    asking questions about the world around him, where the director acts as a father-figure
    narrator, where the film is largely a dialogue between father and oldest son, Kidlat de
    Guia, who ages noticeably as the film progresses.

    References:
    http://cranesareflying1.blogspot.com/2014/10/why-is-yellow-middle-of-rainbow-
    bakit.html
    https://www.tiff.net/the-review/kidlat-tahimik-godfather-of-the-filipino-new-wave/
    https://dafilms.com/director/9725-kidlat-tahimik

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