Being Here, Dreaming There

Péter Lichter / Hungary / 2025 / World Premiere / 3 min.

synopsis

Super 8 footage of hunting and other pastimes from Peruvian archives sinks into absorbing visual whirlpools that absorb both the bodies depicted and the viewers' gaze. This tribute to the legendary Our Trip to Africa (Unsere Afrikareise, 1961–1966) by Austrian avant-garde filmmaker Peter Kubelka, from which this film takes its soundtrack, was created as one of the “variations on intimacy” – a collective project of the MUTA International Festival of Audiovisual Appropriation in Lima.

“The film explores the lingering spectres of colonialism and the eerie contradictions of tourism, echoing Kubelka’s radical montage techniques while probing the politics of vision and presence.” — Péter Lichter

biography

Péter Lichter (born 1984) is a Hungarian experimental filmmaker. He regularly presents his found footage films at Ji.hlava IDFF, where he received a special mention in the Fascination section in 2020 for his film Baroque Femina (Nr. 7–11). He is the editor of Prizma magazine and the author of a number of books on film history and fiction.