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Péter Lichter

Péter Lichter

Director

7 horror credits

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.

Director7 films

The Thing in the Coffin

The Thing in the Coffin

Director

2026
The Grey Machine

The Grey Machine

Director

2025
The Geneva Mechanism: A Ghost Movie

The Geneva Mechanism: A Ghost Movie

Director

2024
Dr. Moreau

Dr. Moreau

Director

2022
The Philosophy of Horror: A Symphony of Film Theory

The Philosophy of Horror: A Symphony of Film Theory

Director

2020
The Philosophy of Horror (Part I): Etymology

The Philosophy of Horror (Part I): Etymology

Director

2019
Frozen May

Frozen May

Director

2017

Writer1 film

Frozen May

Frozen May

Writer

2017

Editor2 films

The Geneva Mechanism: A Ghost Movie

The Geneva Mechanism: A Ghost Movie

Editor

2024
The Philosophy of Horror: A Symphony of Film Theory

The Philosophy of Horror: A Symphony of Film Theory

Editor

2020

Other Crew1 film

Frozen May

Frozen May

Co-Writer

2017