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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Péter Lichter Movies

  • 2022
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    The Mysterious Affair at Styles

    The Mysterious Affair at Styles

    5 2022 HD

    A collage crime movie from the first novel of Agatha Christie.

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  • 2010
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    Light-Sleep

    Light-Sleep

    5.5 2010 HD

    A boy's sleep is disturbed.

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  • 2021
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    Arnheim in Anaheim

    Arnheim in Anaheim

    1 2021 HD

    The impression of the work of philosopher Rudolf Arnheim, woven into a desktop collage, is based on a visit to Disneyland, an iconic cultural product...

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  • 2012
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    Look Inside the Ghost Machine

    Look Inside the Ghost Machine

    1 2012 HD

    The early avant-garde filmmakers believed that the cinema had the function of a machine, made to generate pure feelings.

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  • 2004
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    Slow Midnight Show

    Slow Midnight Show

    1 2004 HD

    The film attempts to stimulate without dialogue and with not too exciting storyline, using only images, sounds, film-noir and usual horror elements.

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  • 2011
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    Cassette

    Cassette

    1 2011 HD

    This short experimental documentary, shot on super 8, contains a soundtrack that was recorded by the film’s authors during a primary school...

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  • 2014
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    Rimbaud

    Rimbaud

    5 2014 HD

    Arthur Rimbaud's adventures are still the greatest mysteries of the history of literature. This film, which was written by three Hungarian poet,...

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  • 2022
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    Dr. Moreau

    Dr. Moreau

    7 2022 HD

    Dr. Moreau is an abstract horror short, adapted from H.G.Wells' classic novel, that will invite the viewer to board on a tangible journey to the...

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  • 2015
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    Pure Virtual Function

    Pure Virtual Function

    1 2015 HD

    Pure Virtual Function is an abstract meditation on the representation of violence, the connection of virtual and real aggression. The film was made...

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  • 1970
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    The Philosophy of Horror (Part II): Emotion

    The Philosophy of Horror (Part II): Emotion

    1 1970 HD

    the second part of "The Philosophy of Horror" series

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  • 1970
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    The Philosophy of Horror (Part III): Geography

    The Philosophy of Horror (Part III): Geography

    1 1970 HD

    the third part of "The Philosophy of Horror" series

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  • 2016
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    Non-Places: Beyond the Infinite

    Non-Places: Beyond the Infinite

    1 2016 HD

    Marc Augé's essay "Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity" meets with Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey in some...

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  • 2024
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    The Geneva Mechanism: A Ghost Movie

    The Geneva Mechanism: A Ghost Movie

    1 2024 HD

    The long dead ghosts of celluloid are coming back to haunt the digital space.

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  • 2024
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    The Geneva Mechanism: A Ghost Movie

    The Geneva Mechanism: A Ghost Movie

    1 2024 HD

    The long dead ghosts of celluloid are coming back to haunt the digital space.

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  • 1970
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    No Signal Detected

    No Signal Detected

    1 1970 HD

    Rhytmical combat of digital and chemical decay. (Brakhage and Sharits meet with Bruce Lee.)

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  • 1970
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    No Signal Detected

    No Signal Detected

    1 1970 HD

    Rhytmical combat of digital and chemical decay. (Brakhage and Sharits meet with Bruce Lee.)

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  • 1970
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    The Grey Machine

    The Grey Machine

    1 1970 HD

    In 1921, an untitled text reminiscent of Edgar Allan Poe's writings was discovered in Boston. It was made by unknown creators, perhaps a...

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  • 2015
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    Pure Virtual Function

    Pure Virtual Function

    1 2015 HD

    Pure Virtual Function is an abstract meditation on the representation of violence, the connection of virtual and real aggression. The film was made...

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  • 2016
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    8th October 2016

    8th October 2016

    1 2016 HD

    The title of the film is the date on which the editorial staff of Hungary’s largest opposition newspaper, Népszabadság, was...

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  • 2016
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    8th October 2016

    8th October 2016

    1 2016 HD

    The title of the film is the date on which the editorial staff of Hungary’s largest opposition newspaper, Népszabadság, was...

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  • 2018
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    The Rub

    The Rub

    1 2018 HD

    A retelling of Shakespeare's play from within the mind of the protagonist. The psychedelic appeal of the film was created with hand painted and...

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  • 2018
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    The Rub

    The Rub

    1 2018 HD

    A retelling of Shakespeare's play from within the mind of the protagonist. The psychedelic appeal of the film was created with hand painted and...

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  • 2017
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    Frozen May

    Frozen May

    5.2 2017 HD

    1990, after the fall. A man struggles to survive in the forest, living alone in a small cabin. One day he spots a mysterious child in an abandoned...

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  • 2017
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    Some of the Sensations

    Some of the Sensations

    1 2017 HD

    This film examines the relationship between the 1950's movie gimmicks and the contemporary blockbusters through the synesthesia of the classical...

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  • 2017
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    Frozen May

    Frozen May

    5.2 2017 HD

    1990, after the fall. A man struggles to survive in the forest, living alone in a small cabin. One day he spots a mysterious child in an abandoned...

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  • 2017
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    Frozen May

    Frozen May

    5.2 2017 HD

    1990, after the fall. A man struggles to survive in the forest, living alone in a small cabin. One day he spots a mysterious child in an abandoned...

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  • 2018
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    Nutrition Fugue

    Nutrition Fugue

    1 2018 HD

    "Közért" (translation: "for the public") was a government owned chain of stores in Hungary, during the communist era (1948-1989). The...

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  • 2010
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    Negative history of Hungarian cinema

    Negative history of Hungarian cinema

    1 2010 HD

    Reconstructions of unrealized Hungarian films in cooperation with the greatest Hungarian film directors.

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  • 2010
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    Negative history of Hungarian cinema

    Negative history of Hungarian cinema

    1 2010 HD

    Reconstructions of unrealized Hungarian films in cooperation with the greatest Hungarian film directors.

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  • 2019
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    Empty Horses

    Empty Horses

    4.3 2019 HD

    If this is heaven, bring on the afterlife! The spirits of legendary Hungarian filmmakers Michael Curtiz and Gábor Bódy meet in a...

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  • 2019
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    Empty Horses

    Empty Horses

    4.3 2019 HD

    If this is heaven, bring on the afterlife! The spirits of legendary Hungarian filmmakers Michael Curtiz and Gábor Bódy meet in a...

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  • 2019
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    Empty Horses

    Empty Horses

    4.3 2019 HD

    If this is heaven, bring on the afterlife! The spirits of legendary Hungarian filmmakers Michael Curtiz and Gábor Bódy meet in a...

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  • 2019
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    The Philosophy of Horror (Part I): Etymology

    The Philosophy of Horror (Part I): Etymology

    1 2019 HD

    The Philosophy of Horror is a seven-part abstract adaptation of Noël Carroll’s influential film theoretical book of the same title...

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  • 2018
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    Love Is A Piece of Paper Torn to Bits

    Love Is A Piece of Paper Torn to Bits

    1 2018 HD

    This film was made during the second hungarian abstract film workshop: the students created a free association adaptation of the poem of Charles...

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  • 2015
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    Polaroids

    Polaroids

    8 2015 HD

    510 On a sleepy morning Eduardo Kac, Professor of Biology, cross-fertilized his own DNA with that of the petunia. From the poetry book of...

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  • 2020
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    Baroque Femina (Nr.7-11)

    Baroque Femina (Nr.7-11)

    1 2020 HD

    Documentary footage, Hollywood cinema and video games collide, overlap and submerge into each other in a Dadaist collage inspired by the poetry of...

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  • 2020
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    Baroque Femina (Nr.7-11)

    Baroque Femina (Nr.7-11)

    1 2020 HD

    Documentary footage, Hollywood cinema and video games collide, overlap and submerge into each other in a Dadaist collage inspired by the poetry of...

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  • 2018
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    Fathers and Sons

    Fathers and Sons

    1 2018 HD

    Chronicling the history of his family from 1787 to now while looking for the answers to some buried secrets regarding certain relatives, Roger...

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  • 2020
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    The Philosophy of Horror: A Symphony of Film Theory

    The Philosophy of Horror: A Symphony of Film Theory

    1 2020 HD

    The Philosophy of Horror – A Symphony of Film Theory is an abstract adaptation of Noël Carroll’s influential film theoretical book...

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  • 2020
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    The Philosophy of Horror: A Symphony of Film Theory

    The Philosophy of Horror: A Symphony of Film Theory

    1 2020 HD

    The Philosophy of Horror – A Symphony of Film Theory is an abstract adaptation of Noël Carroll’s influential film theoretical book...

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