He enrolled in university, first in New York and then at La Sorbonne in Paris, but did not complete his studies.
Returning to New York, he was given an old 8 mm camera from his father, and he began shooting street scenes in Greenwich Village.
[2] His first feature-length film Echoes of Silence took the sorts of everyday scenes he had been shooting and created a fictional story in which to place them, following the adventures of an aimless young man wandering the streets of New York.
[1][2] Goldman returned to Europe to shoot his next film Wheel of Ashes, starring Pierre Clémenti.
He directed its 1983 documentary NBC in Lebanon: A Study in Media Misrepresentation, which alleged that NBC Nightly News' coverage of the 1982 Lebanon War was biased against Israel in favor of the Palestine Liberation Organization.