Péter Lichter

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Péter Lichter

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 Festi…

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Frozen MayFrozen May · 2017
Frozen May
★ 4.82017
MovieHorrorScience Fiction
1990, after the fall. A man struggles to survive in the forest, living alone in a small cabin. One day he spots a mysterious child in an abandoned summer camp.
The RubThe Rub · 2018
The Rub
2018
MovieAnimationDrama
A retelling of Shakespeare's play from within the mind of the protagonist. The psychedelic appeal of the film was created with hand painted and rotten 35 mm and 16 mm celluloid strips.
Empty HorsesEmpty Horses · 2019
Empty Horses
★ 4.32019
Movie
If this is heaven, bring on the afterlife! The spirits of legendary Hungarian filmmakers Michael Curtiz and Gábor Bódy meet in a metaphysical screening room, while on the screen footage plays of classic twentieth-century films.
Memory HoleMemory Hole
Memory Hole
Movie
The film approaches Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four as a speculative archaeology: the visual markers of consumer society and political propaganda emerge through damaged advertisements and printed political materials.
The Thing in the CoffinThe Thing in the Coffin · 2026
The Thing in the Coffin
2026
MovieHorror
An experimental reinterpretation of Dracula, this film fuses analog and digital decay-from Super 8 to 35mm-into a glitch-infused vision that transforms the novel's gothic eroticism into a haunting new audiovisual experience.
Fourteen variations on the intimateFourteen variations on the intimate · 2023
Fourteen variations on the intimate
2023
MovieDocumentary
In early 2020, MUTA - International Festival of Audiovisual Appropriation and Cine Íntimo rescued and digitised a Peruvian archive of orphaned 8mm and Super 8 home movies. With the aim of restoring these lost memories, we sent the images around the world. This omnibus film is the result of the intervention of this material, by 14 experimental filmmakers. Fourteen perspectives and ways of experiencing appropriation. Fourteen variations on the intimate.
War of the Worlds
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War of the Worlds · 2026
War of the Worlds
2026
MovieScience Fiction
Collage film built upon the audio of The War of the Worlds, directed and narrated by Orson Welles. Originally broadcast in October 1938 as a Halloween prank, the program famously triggered mass panic across the United States, as its format—presented as a series of live news bulletins—proved uncannily convincing. Absorbing the visual language of the contemporary media environment, W:A:R:O:F:T:H:E:W:O:R:L:D:S constructs a peculiar media-archaeological artifact. AI-generated videos, drone footage, feature films, video games, and online fragments converge with the original radio broadcast, creating a layered and unstable field of perception.
The Mysterious Affair at StylesThe Mysterious Affair at Styles · 2022
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
★ 5.02022
MovieMysteryDocumentary
A collage crime movie from the first novel of Agatha Christie.

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