Péter Lichter

Hungary

Péter Lichter

script writer, director, producer

Baroque Femina (Nr.7-11)

Baroque Femina (Nr.7-11)

Documentary footage, Hollywood cinema and video games collide, overlap and submerge into each other in a Dadaist collage inspired by the poetry of Hungarian poet Mário Z. Nemes. The hypermedia nature of the present is…
The Philosophy of Horror (Part I): Etymology

The Philosophy of Horror (Part I): Etymology

The first part of a seven-part adaptation of the influential 1990 book of the same name by American philosopher and art theorist Noël Carroll. In the spirit of cinematic philosophy (filmosophy), Lichter explores various…
Üres lovak

Üres lovak

Mihály Kertész (1886-1962) made more than 150 films, most of them as Michael Curtiz in the United States. He remains known thanks to one of them - the melodrama Casablanca (1942). Gábor Bódy (1946-1985), on the other…
Nutrition Fugue

Nutrition Fugue

This ironic found-footage collage created from raw footage originally shot for the Közért (“For the Public”) retail chain, a state-run network of shops in Hungary during communism, shows the problems of eating and…
Non-Places: Beyond the Infinite

Non-Places: Beyond the Infinite

Marc Augé's essay "Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity" meets with Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Polaroids

Polaroids

510 On a sleepy morning Eduardo Kac, Professor of Biology, cross-fertilized his own DNA with that of the petunia. From the poetry book of Márton Simon.