
Directing
Peter Sillen
Acting credits
Behind the camera
NRGrand 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
NR1969, 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
5.0Benjamin 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
8.0A 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
8.0A portrait of Athens, Georgia singer-songwriter Vic Chesnutt.
Speed Racer: Welcome to the World of Vic Chesnutt
1994
NRIn 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
NRFuturists 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
NRFuturists 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
NRHow 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

