[2] Goldman was songwriter and producer for the art-pop band Fol Chen, which released three albums on Sufjan Stevens's Asthmatic Kitty label from 2009 to 2013 and was noted for its "instantly unique blend of dread and whimsy.

[5] His early work includes the 1998 documentary short The Mark Twain Company, which screened at MoMA, Los Angeles Filmforum, and Other Cinema in San Francisco.

Craig Baldwin described the film as a “deadpan inventory of the evolution of Twain’s familial and cultural bequests [that] constitutes a canny critical treatise on relations between artists, estates, heirs, intellectual property, and public memory” and said it “offers crucial insights into how artistic intentions are unexpectedly transformed by historical forces.” The LA Weekly called it “a fascinating and revealing portrait of the insidious workings of capitalist enterprise.”[6] He began composing for film in 2000 with the feature documentary The Target Shoots First, directed by Chris Wilcha.

With director Heather Ross, he cowrote and produced For Madmen Only: The Stories of Del Close (2020), a feature comedy-documentary hybrid about the improvisational comedy guru who coached many of the best-known comedians and comic actors of the late twentieth century.

Starring Patton Oswalt, James Urbaniak (as Close), Matt Walsh, Josh Fadem, and Lauren Lapkus, the film premiered at SXSW and is distributed by Hulu.