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