Peter Sillen

Directing

Peter Sillen

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Grand Luncheonette poster
NR

Grand Luncheonette documents the final days of one of Time Square s unforgettable lunch counters. The closing of Fred Hakim s 42nd Street hot dog stand marks the final phase of the much publicized gentrification of the neighborhood

Grand Luncheonette

2005

62,000:1 Three Teams One City One Year poster
NR

1969, New York City, 3 teams won World Championships, the Jets, the Mets and the Knicks.

62,000:1 Three Teams One City One Year

2019

Benjamin Smoke poster
5.0

Benjamin Smoke is the highly acclaimed documentary by directors Jem Cohen and Peter Sillen on legendary underground musician Benjamin Smoke. Benjamin Smoke follows the crooked path of this fringe-dweller, speed-freak, occasional drag-queen and all-around renegade living in the hidden Atlanta neighborhood called “Cabbagetown,” and playing with his band Smoke.

Benjamin Smoke

2000

I Am Secretly An Important Man poster
8.0

A portrait of the writer and poet Steven J. Bernstein (aka Jesse Bernstein), one of Seattle's most celebrated and troubled voices. His angry, surprisingly fresh, lyrical writings are about sensitive souls, drifters and drug addicts, people alienated by a society that refuses to understand them. Bernstein was an integral part of the legendary Seattle rock scene of the late 80's and early 90s, and in 1991 was dubbed the 'Godfather of Grunge.'

I Am Secretly An Important Man

2010

Speed Racer: Welcome to the World of Vic Chesnutt poster
8.0

A portrait of Athens, Georgia singer-songwriter Vic Chesnutt.

Speed Racer: Welcome to the World of Vic Chesnutt

1994

Unhittable: Sidd Finch and the Tibetan Fastball poster
NR

In the spring of 1985, Sports Illustrated profiled the latest prospect of the New York Mets farm system: Sidd Finch, a Harvard dropout who spoke 10 languages, played the French horn, wore one hiking boot … and threw 168 mph. If it sounds too good to be true, that’s because it was. Finch was an elaborate hoax constructed by the late George Plimpton for SI’s April 1 issue. Unhittable brings back all of the people who made this hoax possible, including Joe Berton, the bespectacled middle school teacher who truly brought Sidd to life.

Unhittable: Sidd Finch and the Tibetan Fastball

2015

Love Machina poster
NR

Futurists Martine and Bina Rothblatt commission an advanced humanoid AI named Bina48 to transfer Bina’s consciousness from a human to a robot in an attempt to continue their once-in-a-galaxy love affair for the rest of time.

Love Machina

2024

Love Machina poster
NR

Futurists Martine and Bina Rothblatt commission an advanced humanoid AI named Bina48 to transfer Bina’s consciousness from a human to a robot in an attempt to continue their once-in-a-galaxy love affair for the rest of time.

Love Machina

2024

Untitled Pizza Movie poster
NR

How do you remember somebody in a disposable world? Untitled Pizza Movie sets out to do just that, by weaving an abandoned film about pizza (shot in NYC in the 1990s), and a stunning, filmed archive (thousands of objects), with a remarkable triple portrait, tracing the trajectory of three lives, across thirty years and three continents.

Untitled Pizza Movie

2020