
Person
Péter Lichter
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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.
Known for

The Rub
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles
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Frozen May
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Dr. Moreau
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Empty Horses
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Fourteen variations on the intimate
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Negative history of Hungarian cinema
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Polaroids
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Slow Midnight Show
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The Thing in the Coffin
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Filmography
- 2026The Thing in the CoffinDirector
- 2025Being Here, Dreaming ThereDirector
- 2025The Grey MachineDirector
- 2024The Geneva Mechanism: A Ghost MovieDirector
- 2023Fourteen variations on the intimateDirector
- 2022Dr. MoreauDirector
- 2022The Mysterious Affair at StylesDirector
- 2021Arnheim in AnaheimDirector
- 2020The Philosophy of Horror: A Symphony of Film TheoryDirector
- 2020Baroque Femina (Nr.7-11)Director
- 2019The Philosophy of Horror (Part I): EtymologyDirector
- 2019Empty HorsesDirector
- 2018Fathers and SonsCo-Producer
- 2018Nutrition FugueDirector
- 2018The RubDirector
- 2018Love Is A Piece of Paper Torn to BitsDirector
- 2017Some of the SensationsDirector
- 2017Frozen MayDirector
- 20168th October 2016Director
- 2016Non-Places: Beyond the InfiniteDirector
- 2015Pure Virtual FunctionDirector
- 2015PolaroidsDirector
- 2014RimbaudDirector
- 2012Look Inside the Ghost MachineDirector
- 2011CassetteDirector
- 2010Light-SleepDirector
- 2010Negative history of Hungarian cinemaWriter
- 2004Slow Midnight ShowDirector
- —The Philosophy of Horror (Part II): EmotionDirector
- —The Philosophy of Horror (Part III): GeographyDirector
- —No Signal DetectedDirector
- —S/T/N/T/N/GDirector
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