- Susan Sontag said in the 60's that he was the most exciting new filmmaker in recent years.
- Wheel of Ashes was his third feature film. He shot the movie in Paris in 1967-68 thanks to a grant he received through Jean-Luc Godard. The film, shot in seven weeks with Pierre Clémenti in the main role, reflects a mystic crisis. Pierre Clémenti, who, just as so many French people at that time, did not speak English, understood the title in a totally different way: 'We Love Hashish.'.
- His film 'Echoes of Silence', obsolete, cost a mere 50 cents per unit. Miguel, the hero of the movie, was initially working as an electrician for the film. The montage was made at night; the music was taken from among the records scattered across the flat: Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, Prokofiev's suite Semyon Kotko, Charles Mingus' Haitian Fight Song. Susan Sontag saw the film in early 1965 and was enthusiastic about it.
- In 1961, he enrolled in Berkeley but spent most of his time in a boxing gym. Then he joined a vessel that took him to Venezuela.
- In 1965, for a total of $10,000, Goldman shot 'The Sensualists', a sexploitation film commissioned by Stanley Borden, a producer of films intended for the movie theatres on 42nd Street. Nothing but some fragments remain from the film.
- He moved to Paris in 1960 to study History at the Sorbonne.
- L Goldman, also a photographer, turned away from cinema, except to make a film in 1983 on the media coverage of the war in Lebanon entitled "NBC in Lebanon: A Study of Media Misrepresentatio".
- Peter Emmanuel Goldman had graduated in English and history from Brown University in Providence.
- Goldman married a young Danish woman, Birgit Nielsen (Katinka Bo), who had a role in 'Wheel of Ashes'.
- Goldman also shot in 1964-65 several short films that now appear to be totally lost, including Recommended by Duncan Hines or Night Crawlers. Only Pestilent City, shot on 42nd Street and Times Square, was saved.
- Peter Emmanuel Goldman is "a figure of the American underground of the 60s".
- In 1962, he went back to Paris and wrote about art in the Paris Herald Tribune.
- In "Wheel of Ashes" Goldman begins his mystic crisis. After this crisis, Peter Emanuel Goldman lived in an ashram in France first, to later leave for Denmark and Israel. He never shot a film again.
- Goldman showed the film 'Echoes of Silence' in SoHo, during the evening sessions at the Film-Makers' Coop. Jonas Mekas wrote about Echoes of Silence in The Village Voice and the film was selected at the Pesaro Film Festival in Italy, a breeding ground for 'young cinema'. The film premiered in New York in a 35 mm copy. The French premiere was banned by censors. Italy, in turn, censored the film.
- In late 1962, back in New York, he shared a flat in Greenwich Village. He bought a Bolex 16 mm camera with a winding crank and started shooting the girls and boys, whether anonymous people or friends, who dropped by this flat. This is how "Echoes of Silence" was born.
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