Kidlat De Guia

Magellan, the famous navigator, met his untimely death in the Philippines before he could circumnavigate the globe. Ironically, it was his slave and translator Enrique who most likely was the first to achieve the historic feat.

Kidlat Tahimik, a director and performer, sought to recreate relations between the body and filmed image seen through "Asian eyes." This groundbreaking project took the form of a documentary which Mr. Tahimik directed and in which he performed himself in order to show his own thinking about the different views of the body held by the "East" and the "West."

Kidlat Tahimik se asocia con un grupo de niños en una granja bávara para construir un cohete espacial. El objetivo es ir a la luna para comprobar si es posible jugar al yoyó en su superficie. Como señalan algunos diccionarios, el yoyó es precisamente un invento filipino. Es así como la granja alemana se convierte en la base del primer Proyecto Oficial Filipino Lunar o P.O.M.P (siglas de Philippine Official Moon Project).