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 fe...
Biography
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
Crew credits
Polaroids2015 · Director4.0
Dr. Moreau2022 · Director3.5
Frozen May2017 · Director, Writer, Co-Writer2.4
Empty Horses2019 · Director, Writer, Editor2.1
The Grey Machine2025 · Director3.5
Light-Sleep2010 · Director2.8
Rimbaud2014 · Director2.5
The Mysterious Affair at Styles2022 · Director2.5
The Rub2018 · Writer, Director
Slow Midnight Show2004 · Director
The Philosophy of Horror: A Symphony of Film Theory2020 · Director, Editor
Nutrition Fugue2018 · Director
Cassette2011 · Director
Fourteen variations on the intimate2023 · Director
The Thing in the Coffin2026 · Director
Negative history of Hungarian cinema2010 · Writer, Editor
8th October 20162016 · Writer, Director
Love Is A Piece of Paper Torn to Bits2018 · Director