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 ten books on film history.

Filmography of Péter Lichter

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