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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 exper…
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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.
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2026
War of the Worlds
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2026
The Thing in the Coffin
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2025
Being Here, Dreaming There
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2025
The Grey Machine
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2024
The Geneva Mechanism: A Ghost Movie
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2023
Fourteen variations on the intimate
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2022
Dr. Moreau
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2022
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
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2021
Arnheim in Anaheim
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2020
The Philosophy of Horror: A Symphony of Film Theory
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2020
Baroque Femina (Nr.7-11)
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2019
The Philosophy of Horror (Part I): Etymology
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2019
Empty Horses
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2018
Fathers and Sons
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2018
Nutrition Fugue
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2018
The Rub
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2018
Love Is A Piece of Paper Torn to Bits
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2017
Some of the Sensations
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2017
Frozen May
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2016
8th October 2016
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2016
Non-Places: Beyond the Infinite
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2015
Pure Virtual Function
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2015
Polaroids
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2014
Rimbaud
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2012
Look Inside the Ghost Machine
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2011
Cassette
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2010
Light-Sleep
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2010
Negative history of Hungarian cinema
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2004
Slow Midnight Show
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Memory Hole
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S/T/N/T/N/G
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The Philosophy of Horror (Part II): Emotion
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No Signal Detected
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The Philosophy of Horror (Part III): Geography
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