
Péter Lichter
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Male
Péter Lichter
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 nine books on film history.
Known For
Crew
No Signal Detected
Editor, Director
Being Here, Dreaming There
Director, Editor
(2025)
The Grey Machine
Director
(2024)
The Geneva Mechanism: A Ghost Movie
Editor, Director
(2022)
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Director
(2022)
Dr. Moreau
Director
(2021)
Arnheim in Anaheim
Director
(2020)
Baroque Femina (Nr.7-11)
Producer, Director
(2020)
The Philosophy of Horror: A Symphony of Film Theory
Director, Editor
(2019)
Empty Horses
Director, Writer, Editor
(2019)
(2018)
The Rub
Writer, Director
(2018)
Nutrition Fugue
Director
(2018)
(2018)
Fathers and Sons
Co-Producer
(2017)
Frozen May
Director, Writer, Co-Writer
(2017)
Some of the Sensations
Director
(2016)
Non-Places: Beyond the Infinite
Director
(2016)
8th October 2016
Writer, Director
(2015)
Pure Virtual Function
Director, Writer
(2015)
Polaroids
Director
(2014)
Rimbaud
Director
(2012)
Look Inside the Ghost Machine
Director
(2011)
Cassette
Director
(2010)
Light-Sleep
Director
(2010)
Negative history of Hungarian cinema
Writer, Editor
(2004)
Slow Midnight Show
Director