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Péter Lichter

Péter Lichter

Director

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Biography

Péter Lichter is a hungarian experimental filmmaker and writer. He studied film history and film theory at the ELTE University, Budapest. Péter makes found footage films and experimental features since 2002. His films were screened at festivals and venues like: Berlin Critics' Week; Rotterdam IFF; Tribeca Film Festival - New York; Jihlava IDFF; Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival; Torino Film Festival; goEast - Wiesbaden; Cottbus Film Festival; EXiS - Seoul; CROSSROADS - San Francisco; VideoEX - Zurich; Festival of (In)appropriation - Los Angeles; Antimatter - Victoria, Canada; and La Cinémathèque Française, Paris and The Kitchen, New York. He is also one of the editors of the Prizma film-periodical, his first book on experimental cinema (A láthatatlan birodalom / The Invisible Impire) was published in 2016, since then he wrote ten books on film history.

Directed

  1. Frozen May (2017) — Director
  2. Rimbaud (2014) — Director
  3. Empty Horses (2019) — Director
  4. Light-Sleep (2010) — Director
  5. The Mysterious Affair at Styles (2022) — Director
  6. Dr. Moreau (2022) — Director
  7. The Grey Machine (2025) — Director
  8. Polaroids (2015) — Director
  9. Arnheim in Anaheim (2021) — Director
  10. Look Inside the Ghost Machine (2012) — Director
  11. Cassette (2011) — Director
  12. Slow Midnight Show (2004) — Director
  13. Pure Virtual Function (2015) — Director
  14. The Philosophy of Horror (Part II): Emotion — Director
  15. The Philosophy of Horror (Part III): Geography — Director
  16. Non-Places: Beyond the Infinite (2016) — Director
  17. The Geneva Mechanism: A Ghost Movie (2024) — Director
  18. No Signal Detected — Director
  19. 8th October 2016 (2016) — Director
  20. The Rub (2018) — Director
  21. Some of the Sensations (2017) — Director
  22. Nutrition Fugue (2018) — Director
  23. The Philosophy of Horror (Part I): Etymology (2019) — Director
  24. Love Is A Piece of Paper Torn to Bits (2018) — Director
  25. Baroque Femina (Nr.7-11) (2020) — Director
  26. The Philosophy of Horror: A Symphony of Film Theory (2020) — Director
  27. Being Here, Dreaming There (2025) — Director
  28. The Thing in the Coffin (2026) — Director
  29. Fourteen variations on the intimate (2023) — Director
  30. S/T/N/T/N/G — Director