
About
Péter Lichter
Overview
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
Directing |
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2026 | The Thing in the Coffin | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2024 | The Geneva Mechanism: A Ghost Movie | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2022 | Dr. Moreau | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2022 | The Mysterious Affair at Styles | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
2021 | Arnheim in Anaheim | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2020 | The Philosophy of Horror: A Symphony of Film Theory | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2020 | Baroque Femina (Nr.7-11) | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2019 | The Philosophy of Horror (Part I): Etymology | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2019 | Empty Horses | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
2019 | Üres lovak | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2018 | Nutrition Fugue | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2018 | The Rub | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2018 | Love Is A Piece of Paper Torn to Bits | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2017 | Some of the Sensations | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2017 | Frozen May | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
2016 | 8th October 2016 | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2016 | Non-Places: Beyond the Infinite | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2015 | Pure Virtual Function | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2015 | Polaroids | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
2014 | Rimbaud | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
2012 | Look Inside the Ghost Machine | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2011 | Cassette | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2010 | Light-Sleep | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
2004 | Slow Midnight Show | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
No Signal Detected | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
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The Philosophy of Horror (Part III): Geography | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
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The Grey Machine | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
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Being Here, Dreaming There | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
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The Philosophy of Horror (Part II): Emotion | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
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Writing |
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2019 | Empty Horses | Writing | Writer | 59 Average |
2019 | Üres lovak | Writing | Writer | N/A N/A |
2018 | The Rub | Writing | Writer | N/A N/A |
2017 | Frozen May | Writing | Writer | 58 Average |
2017 | Frozen May | Writing | Co-Writer | 58 Average |
2016 | 8th October 2016 | Writing | Writer | N/A N/A |
2015 | Pure Virtual Function | Writing | Writer | N/A N/A |
2010 | Negative history of Hungarian cinema | Writing | Writer | N/A N/A |
Production |
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2020 | Baroque Femina (Nr.7-11) | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
2019 | Üres lovak | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
2018 | Fathers and Sons | Production | Co-Producer | N/A N/A |
Editing |
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2024 | The Geneva Mechanism: A Ghost Movie | Editing | Editor | N/A N/A |
2020 | The Philosophy of Horror: A Symphony of Film Theory | Editing | Editor | N/A N/A |
2019 | Üres lovak | Editing | Editor | N/A N/A |
2019 | Empty Horses | Editing | Editor | 59 Average |
2010 | Negative history of Hungarian cinema | Editing | Editor | N/A N/A |
Being Here, Dreaming There | Editing | Editor | N/A N/A |
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No Signal Detected | Editing | Editor | N/A N/A |