Péter Lichter
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- November 20, 1984
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.
Filmography

S/T/N/T/N/G TBA
Director

No Signal Detected TBA
Editor, Director
- The Philosophy of Horror (Part III): Geography
The Philosophy of Horror (Part III): Geography TBA
Director
- The Philosophy of Horror (Part II): Emotion
The Philosophy of Horror (Part II): Emotion TBA
Director

Memory Hole 2026
Director, Editor, Producer

War of the Worlds 2026
Director

The Thing in the Coffin 2026
Director

Being Here, Dreaming There 2025
Director, Editor

The Grey Machine 2025
Director

The Geneva Mechanism: A Ghost Movie 2024
Editor, Director

Fourteen variations on the intimate 2023
Director

Dr. Moreau 2022
Director

The Mysterious Affair at Styles 2022
Director

Arnheim in Anaheim 2021
Director

The Philosophy of Horror: A Symphony of Film Theory 2020
Director, Editor

Baroque Femina (Nr.7-11) 2020
Producer, Director

The Philosophy of Horror (Part I): Etymology 2019
Director

Empty Horses 2019
Director, Writer, Editor
- Fathers and Sons
Fathers and Sons 2018
Co-Producer

Nutrition Fugue 2018
Director

The Rub 2018
Writer, Director

Love Is A Piece of Paper Torn to Bits 2018
Director

Some of the Sensations 2017
Director

Frozen May 2017
Director, Writer, Co-Writer

8th October 2016 2016
Writer, Director

Non-Places: Beyond the Infinite 2016
Director

Pure Virtual Function 2015
Director, Writer

Polaroids 2015
Director

Rimbaud 2014
Director
- Look Inside the Ghost Machine
Look Inside the Ghost Machine 2012
Director

Cassette 2011
Director

Negative history of Hungarian cinema 2010
Writer, Editor

Light-Sleep 2010
Director

Slow Midnight Show 2004
Director
Credits from TMDB.