Ben Model is one of the nation's leading silent film accompanists, performing both piano and theatre organ. Over the past 40 years he has created and performed live scores for several hundred silent films films lasting anywhere from one minute to five hours. Ben is a resident film accompanist at the Museum of Modern Art (NY) and at the Library of Congress' Packard Campus Theatre. His recorded scores can be heard on numerous DVD/Blu-Ray releases from Kino Lorber, Milestone Films, his own label Undercrank Productions, and on TCM.  Ben is a regular accompanist at classic film festivals around the U.S.A. and internationally, and performs at universities, museums, and historic theaters.

Ben's composed ensemble scores for films by silent comedy shorts are performed around the U.S. every year by orchestras and by concert bands. Ben has co-curated a number of film series for MoMA; he is also the archivist for the Ernie Kovacs/Edie Adams collection (Ediad Productions) and has curated programmed three DVD box sets of Ernie Kovacs television shows.

In March 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic shutdown Ben created the first live-streamed live-scored silent film series, The Silent Comedy Watch Party. The weekly YouTube show brought much-needed laughter to viewers around the globe and is still being presented today, on a monthly basis. Ben used the tech devised for this to the classroom, and his Spring 2021 semester's online offering of Silent Storytelling at Wesleyan has live-streamed/live-scored presentations of all films shown during class sessions.