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