"In Peter Emanuel Goldman's Echoes of Silence (1965), we watch a strange void in people's lives. Perhaps they are lost; perhaps they are waiting. In many ways it might be said that this state of waiting is our inheritance in society today, whether it is based on fear, or waste, or failure or on none of these. Goldman's film creates this sense of waiting in an almost 'documentary' manner, though it is far from the traditional documentary film. It helps us to understand the loneliness of waiting for nothing, the feeling of being a prisoner yet not in prison: the girl trying to decide whether or not to become a prostitute; the two boys making contact as in the loneliness among Genet prisoners, for another human being does provide a principal identity for the self; the young man standing on the city street, waiting. Echoes of Silence is presented in a series of chapters; as in Goldman's shorter films Night Crawlers (1964) and Pestilent City (1965) the lonely utterances become extensions of fact, bits of life blown into time." Stephen Dwoskin, Film Is