28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
Non-Places: Beyond the Infinite
synopsis
This essayist collage visually develops French anthropologist Marc Augé’s concept of nonplace (ephemeral places characterized by anonymity or blurred identity) and turns images of highways and rest stops upside down, thus emphasizing the difficult-to-grasp images of these worlds
“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.”
biography
This essayist collage visually develops French anthropologist Marc Augé’s concept of nonplace (ephemeral places characterized by anonymity or blurred identity) and turns images of highways and rest stops upside down, thus emphasizing the difficult-to-grasp images of these worlds. Hungarian documentary filmmaker and poet Peter Lichter (1984) is the editor of the cinema periodical Prizma. Since 2002, he has made several poetically charged films using found footage. The Jihlava IDFF previously showed his film Negative History of Hungarian Cinema (2010), in which he and Gabor Farkas and Gyula Nemes used fictional memories of “the good old days” to tell an alternative history of Hungarian cinema.
more about film
director: | Péter Lichter |
producer: | Péter Lichter |
script: | Péter Lichter |
photography: | David Gerencsér |
editing: | Péter Lichter |
sound: | Péter Lichter |