28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

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Non-Places: Beyond the Infinite

Non-Places: Beyond the Infinite

director: Péter Lichter
original title: Non-Places: Beyond the Infinite
country: Hungary
year: 2016
running time: 6 min.

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
Ministerstvo kultury
Fond kinematografie
Creative Europe Media
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GEMO
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