Péter Lichter
filmmaker
Budapest, HU
experimental history theoryAbout
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. Peter frequently collaborates with composer Ádám Márton Horváth, sound designer Péter Benjámin Lukács, producer Dóra Nedeczky, poet Márió Z. Nemes, and artists, like Loránd Szécsény-Nagy and Bori Máté. His feature length films are: Frozen May (2017), The Rub (with Bori Máté, 2018), Empty Horses, (2019), The Philosophy of Horror (with Bori Máté, 2020), Barokk Femina (2020), The Mysterious Affair at Styles (2022)