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Why Is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow? (1994)
Directed by Kidlat Tahimik
Documentary · 2h 55m
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.
Crew
- Director
- Kidlat Tahimik
- Writer
- Kidlat Tahimik
- Director of Photography
- Kidlat Tahimik, Boy Yñiguez
- Editor
- Kidlat Tahimik
Details
- Original title
- Bakit Dilaw ang Gitna ng Bahag-hari?
- Release date
- 1994-07-09
- Runtime
- 2h 55m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- TL
- Spoken languages
- English, Tagalog
- Countries
- Philippines