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Péter Lichter

Péter Lichter

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 nine books on film history.

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Known For

  • The Mysterious Affair at Styles
  • Light-Sleep
  • Arnheim in Anaheim
  • Look Inside the Ghost Machine
  • Cassette
  • Slow Midnight Show
  • Rimbaud
  • Dr. Moreau
  • Pure Virtual Function
  • The Philosophy of Horror (Part II): Emotion
  • The Philosophy of Horror (Part III): Geography
  • Non-Places: Beyond the Infinite
  • The Geneva Mechanism: A Ghost Movie
  • No Signal Detected
  • The Grey Machine
  • 8th October 2016
  • The Rub
  • Frozen May
  • Some of the Sensations
  • Nutrition Fugue
  • Empty Horses
  • The Philosophy of Horror (Part I): Etymology
  • Love Is A Piece of Paper Torn to Bits
  • Polaroids
  • Baroque Femina (Nr.7-11)
  • The Philosophy of Horror: A Symphony of Film Theory
  • Being Here, Dreaming There