Why Is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow?
1994, Tagalog. Directed by Kidlat Tahimik.
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.
- Runtime
- 2h 55m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Tagalog
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- Released
- 9 July 1994
- Original title
- Bakit Dilaw ang Gitna ng Bahag-hari?
- Country
- Philippines
- Written by
- Kidlat Tahimik
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Why Is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow? isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 9 July 1994. (Checked 14 November 2026.)
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Why Is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow? (1994) was directed by Kidlat Tahimik.