Péter Lichter

Polaroids

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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.

Look Inside the Ghost Machine

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The early avant-garde filmmakers believed that the cinema had the function of a machine, made to generate pure feelings.

Rimbaud

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Trivera Csányi, Kristóf Kovács

Arthur Rimbaud's adventures are still the greatest mysteries of the history of literature. This film, which was written by three Hungarian poet, attempts to reconstruct the journeys of the French poet. Rimbaud is an experimental road movie, edited from 30 reels of super 8 film, shot by unknown families in the past century.

Empty Horses

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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.

Nutrition Fugue

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"Közért" (translation: "for the public") was a government owned chain of stores in Hungary, during the communist era (1948-1989). The word Közért is still used in the Hungarian language. Our film was made from the 35 mm celluloid raw footage of its advertisement: the film strips were digged in the soil, rotten with food and cut up in pieces.

Pure Virtual Function

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Pure Virtual Function is an abstract meditation on the representation of violence, the connection of virtual and real aggression. The film was made from painted 35 mm film strips and sound recording from Iraq war.

The Rub

Péter Lichter, Bori Máté

Szabolcs Hajdu

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.

Non-Places: Beyond the Infinite

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Marc Augé's essay "Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity" meets with Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey in some Hungarian highway rest areas.

A horror filozófiája

Péter Lichter, Bori Máté

The Philosophy of Horror – A Symphony of Film Theory is an abstract adaptation of Noël Carroll’s influential film theoretical book of the same title (published in 1990), which is a close examination of the horror genre. Our film uses hand painted and decayed 35 mm film strips of the classic slasher movie A Nightmare on Elm Street (Wes Craven, 1984) and its sequel A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985).

2016. október 8.

Péter Lichter, Bori Máté

The title of the film is the date on which the editorial staff of Hungary’s largest opposition newspaper, Népszabadság, was fired. The filmmaker tore up copies of that day’s issue, layered them, and then turned them into an urgent collage expressing his yearning for the free expression of opposition viewpoints. The visible edges of the film emphasize the impossibility of presenting information in a complete context.

Félálom

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A boy's sleep is disturbed.

Éjszakai előadás

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The film attempts to stimulate without dialogue and with not too exciting storyline, using only images, sounds, film-noir and usual horror elements.

Fagyott május

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Benjámin Lichter, Hanna Pálos

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.

Love Is A Piece Of Paper Torn To Bits

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This film was made during the second hungarian abstract film workshop: the students created a free association adaptation of the poem of Charles Bukowski. The film was made with direct animation technique, on 35 mm and 16 mm filmstrips. Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest.

The Philosophy of Horror (Part I): Etymology

Péter Lichter, Bori Máté

The Philosophy of Horror is a seven-part abstract adaptation of Noël Carroll’s influential film theoretical book of the same title (published in 1990), which is a close examination of the horror genre. The film uses hand painted and decayed 35mm film strips of the classic slasher movie A Nightmare on Elm Street (Wes Craven, 1984) and its sequel A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985).

Some of the Sensations

Péter Lichter, Bori Máté

This film examines the relationship between the 1950's movie gimmicks and the contemporary blockbusters through the synesthesia of the classical abstract cinema.