An interview with Kidlat Tahimik, a movie director, writer and actor born in 1942 in the Philippines.

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Interview with director Kidlat Tahimik

In this audio file we interview Yael Hersonski, director of the groundbreaking new holocaust documentary A Film Unfinished. She talks a bit about her mission to look at wartime holocaust footage in an alternative way. Below is the transcript.

Yael Hersonski Tidf 2010

Kidlat de Guia's father, Kidlat Tahimik (Eric de Guia) is one of the most prized Third (World) Cinema filmmakers and artists in the Phillipines. Kidlat initially tried to avoid the cliché of following in his father's footsteps - but alas Kidlat could not shake off his love of film and finally he is now making documentary, most recently for the United Nations. At TIDF 2010, I had a quick chat with him about festival bars, Taiwan, and asked him words of advice for aspiring documentarists.

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Chat with Kidlat Tahimik

楊富閔是一位閃耀的年輕文壇新星，近來出版了短篇小說集「花甲男孩」--- 包括駱以軍及施淑等多位著名作家與評論家，皆對此書大表讚賞。

他的作品抓住了台灣精神有趣的二元性，對平民習俗與信仰的描述和台灣大眾文化，像是星光大道、BBS和野狼125等合諧並陳。

楊諷刺的筆調伴隨了同情與自我認同的註解，使得他的作品與前人相較更加人性化、也更能感動人心。雖然大量使用台灣本地文化產物與台灣語言架構的方式，使得這本書對對外國學生來說，理解上有難度，但在好的搜尋引擎及台灣朋友或台灣字典的幫助下，確實非常值得閱讀。目前楊富閩正在台灣大學台灣文學研究所攻讀碩士學位。

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