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Péter Lichter

EN, HU cinema · 34 credits

Born

20 November 1984 (age 41)

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

Filmography

The Philosophy of Horror (Part II): Emotion

The Philosophy of Horror (Part II): Emotion

ENNot rated

Director

The Philosophy of Horror (Part III): Geography

The Philosophy of Horror (Part III): Geography

ENNot rated

Director

No Signal Detected poster

No Signal Detected

ENNot rated

Editor, Director

S/T/N/T/N/G poster

S/T/N/T/N/G

ENNot rated

Director

The Thing in the Coffin poster

The Thing in the Coffin

HU · 2026Not rated

Director

War of the Worlds poster

War of the Worlds

EN · 2026Not rated

Director

Memory Hole poster

Memory Hole

EN · 2026Not rated

Director, Editor, Producer

The Grey Machine poster

The Grey Machine

EN · 20257.0

Director

Being Here, Dreaming There poster

Being Here, Dreaming There

EN · 2025Not rated

Director, Editor

The Geneva Mechanism: A Ghost Movie poster

The Geneva Mechanism: A Ghost Movie

EN · 2024Not rated

Director, Editor

Fourteen variations on the intimate poster

Fourteen variations on the intimate

EN · 2023Not rated

Director

The Mysterious Affair at Styles poster

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

HU · 20225.0

Director

Dr. Moreau poster

Dr. Moreau

HU · 20227.0

Director

Arnheim in Anaheim poster

Arnheim in Anaheim

HU · 2021Not rated

Director

Baroque Femina (Nr.7-11) poster

Baroque Femina (Nr.7-11)

HU · 2020Not rated

Producer, Director

The Philosophy of Horror: A Symphony of Film Theory poster

The Philosophy of Horror: A Symphony of Film Theory

EN · 2020Not rated

Editor, Director

Empty Horses poster

Empty Horses

HU · 20194.3

Director, Writer, Editor

The Philosophy of Horror (Part I): Etymology poster

The Philosophy of Horror (Part I): Etymology

HU · 2019Not rated

Director

The Rub poster

The Rub

EN · 2018Not rated

Writer, Director

Nutrition Fugue poster

Nutrition Fugue

HU · 2018Not rated

Director

Love Is A Piece of Paper Torn to Bits poster

Love Is A Piece of Paper Torn to Bits

EN · 2018Not rated

Director

Fathers and Sons

2018

Fathers and Sons

EN · 2018Not rated

Co-Producer

Frozen May poster

Frozen May

HU · 20174.8

Director, Writer, Co-Writer

Some of the Sensations poster

Some of the Sensations

EN · 2017Not rated

Director

Non-Places: Beyond the Infinite poster

Non-Places: Beyond the Infinite

EN · 2016Not rated

Director

8th October 2016 poster

8th October 2016

HU · 2016Not rated

Writer, Director

Pure Virtual Function poster

Pure Virtual Function

HU · 2015Not rated

Director, Writer

Polaroids poster

Polaroids

EN · 20158.0

Director

Rimbaud poster

Rimbaud

HU · 20145.0

Director

Look Inside the Ghost Machine

2012

Look Inside the Ghost Machine

EN · 2012Not rated

Director

Cassette poster

Cassette

HU · 2011Not rated

Director

Light-Sleep poster

Light-Sleep

HU · 20105.5

Director

Negative history of Hungarian cinema poster

Negative history of Hungarian cinema

HU · 201010.0

Editor, Writer

Slow Midnight Show poster

Slow Midnight Show

HU · 2004Not rated

Director