Pete Sillen

Director, Cinematographer, Producer

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

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

A documentary on one of Seattle's most celebrated voices. His unique rhythms are filled with humor and pain and his angry, fresh, lyrical writings are about sensitive drifters; people alienated by a society that refuses to understand them.

I Am Secretly an Important Man

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Branson: Musicland USA

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 area. Unfortunately, not everyone wins in this new Times Square economy. 

Grand Luncheonette

This highly unorthodox documentary follows the crooked path of Benjamin (no last name). He lives in a hidden neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia called "Cabbagetown." Drag-queen, speed-freak, all-around renegade, Benjamin left the straight (in every sense of the word) world behind a long time ago.

Benjamin Smoke

Speed Racer: Welcome to the World of Vic Chesnutt introduces the audience to the then twenty-seven year old singer/songwriter from Athens, Georgia. The recording of Vic's second album is used as a vehicle to enter Chesnutt's all-impressionistic world.

Speed Racer: Welcome to the World of Vic Chesnutt

Inspired by ESPN's anniversary, ESPN Films' 30 for 30 is an unprecedented documentary series featuring films from some of today's finest storytellers. Each filmmaker brings their passion and personal point of view to their films that transformed the sports landscape from 1979 to 2009. Own select films from this acclaimed series today.

Unhittable: Sidd Finch and the Tibetan Fastball / 30 for 30 Shorts

Joe Pacheco, Curator of the Brooklyn Independent Cinema Series, has selected 10 stellar short films for this DVD compilation. They have all played at major festivals and won important awards but, most importantly, they have played at Pacheco's Brooklyn screening series.

Brooklyn Independent Vol. 1

Two old pals reunite for a camping trip in Oregon's Cascade Mountains.

Old Joy

Documentarian Sam Green interprets our collective fascination with the Guinness Book of World Records as a profound need to try and make some sense of who we are by calibrating human experience and marveling at its outer contours.

The Measure of All Things

Bayard Rustin was the organizer of the March on Washington and one of the leaders of the civil rights movement. In the 1980s Bayard adopted his younger boyfriend Walter Naegle to obtain the legal protections of marriage. In this intimate love story, Walter remembers Bayard and a time when gay marriage was inconceivable.

Bayard & Me

An unorthodox concert film of the Holland-based band, the Ex, playing in New York. Intercut with city footage and documentation of anti-war, anti-Bush demonstrations.

Building a Broken Mousetrap

The Foxx and Little Vic

The true story of a man who built a house to heal his wife.

Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then

A documentary about typography, graphic design, and global visual culture.

Helvetica

Filmmaker Sam Green (The Weather Underground), in collaboration with writer and editor Joe Bini (Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, Grizzly Man), takes the stage with the legendary classical-music group Kronos Quartet to create a "live documentary" that chronologically unfolds the quartet's groundbreaking, continent-spanning, multi-decade career.

A Thousand Thoughts

Independent Lens is an award-winning PBS documentary series that streams on the PBS App and airs on public television. Independent Lens documentaries focus on stories of underrepresented communities and universal challenges found across America. The series has been awarded numerous Emmys and Peabodys, and has been nominated for 10 Academy Awards.

Independent Lens

How do you remember somebody in a disposable world? UNTITLED PIZZA MOVIE is a six-part limited series, that weaves 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

Fifteen distinct but interconnected chapters, shot in locations from Russia to New York City to Istanbul. Together, these build to a reckoning at the intersection of city symphony, diary, and essay film.

Counting

For over 30 years, Marion Stokes obsessively and privately recorded American television news 24 hours a day filling 70,000 VHS tapes, capturing wars, talk shows and commercials that show us how television shaped the world of today.

Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

Chronicle of Wilco's 2013 Solid Sound music festival, which takes place over three days at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.