A New York-based filmmaker whose filmmaking approach owes more to acknowledged foreign masters Éric Rohmer, Maurice Pialat, and Mikio Naruse, the slim but exquisite body of work that Sallitt has created over the last 30+ years—films of understated drama and enormous emotional insight—have won him a small but ardent pack of admirers, among them Arnaud Desplechin. One of the best-kept secrets in American independent cinema.