Jay Rosenblatt Movies

Just moments before his third wedding, Zahedi relates with utter sincerity and astonishing candor his obsession with prostitutes. He retraces his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Caveh Zahedi

For 17 years, filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt filmed his daughter Ella on her birthday in the same spot, asking her the same questions. In just 29 minutes,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ella Rosenblatt

For 17 years, filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt filmed his daughter Ella on her birthday in the same spot, asking her the same questions. In just 29 minutes,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ella Rosenblatt

For 17 years, filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt filmed his daughter Ella on her birthday in the same spot, asking her the same questions. In just 29 minutes,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ella Rosenblatt

For 17 years, filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt filmed his daughter Ella on her birthday in the same spot, asking her the same questions. In just 29 minutes,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ella Rosenblatt

A mind-boggling "coincidence" leads the filmmaker to track down his fifth grade class – and fifth grade teacher – to examine their memory...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mark Athitakis

Human Remains is a haunting documentary which illustrates the banality of evil by creating intimate portraits of five of the 20th century's most...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Eva Braun

For 17 years, filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt filmed his daughter Ella on her birthday in the same spot, asking her the same questions. In just 29 minutes,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ella Rosenblatt

The Darkness of Day is a haunting meditation on suicide. It is comprised entirely of found 16mm footage that had been discarded. The sadness, the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Beverly Berning

The Darkness of Day is a haunting meditation on suicide. It is comprised entirely of found 16mm footage that had been discarded. The sadness, the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Beverly Berning

The Darkness of Day is a haunting meditation on suicide. It is comprised entirely of found 16mm footage that had been discarded. The sadness, the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Beverly Berning

The death of my seven-year-old brother when I was nine remains a painful and haunting memory. My parents did not know how to cope with the loss of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Beverly Berning

A haunting documentary on the pains of growing up male. It explores the inner and outer cruelties that boys perpetrate and endure. The film provokes...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Richard J. Silberg

A haunting documentary on the pains of growing up male. It explores the inner and outer cruelties that boys perpetrate and endure. The film provokes...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Richard J. Silberg

King of the Jews is a film about anti-Semitism and transcendence. Utilizing Hollywood movies, 1950's educational films, personal home movies and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jay Rosenblatt

King of the Jews is a film about anti-Semitism and transcendence. Utilizing Hollywood movies, 1950's educational films, personal home movies and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jay Rosenblatt

King of the Jews is a film about anti-Semitism and transcendence. Utilizing Hollywood movies, 1950's educational films, personal home movies and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jay Rosenblatt

King of the Jews is a film about anti-Semitism and transcendence. Utilizing Hollywood movies, 1950's educational films, personal home movies and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jay Rosenblatt

A woman is reduced to tears. She bends over backwards trying to be a good wife and mother. Her head is cut off from her heart. A doctor picks her...

Genre: Documentary

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A woman is reduced to tears. She bends over backwards trying to be a good wife and mother. Her head is cut off from her heart. A doctor picks her...

Genre: Documentary

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A woman is reduced to tears. She bends over backwards trying to be a good wife and mother. Her head is cut off from her heart. A doctor picks her...

Genre: Documentary

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A two year old, an ice cream cone and a clean, white shirt.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ella Rosenblatt

A film about fear and anxiety. 
Official Selection, Toronto International Film Festival



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Cast: Garrison Keillor

An old man reflects on his entire life. How quickly it all goes by.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jay Rosenblatt

Exploring imagination, memories, dreams, or past lives of Pinky the cat.

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An off-screen narrator remembers a time he was five years old, walking to school in a heavy rain, wearing a yellow slicker and cap. He relates to us...

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Newsreels, commercials, and home movies are used to study the life and influence of Anita Bryant.

Genre: Documentary

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Found Footage Rock Video

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Faith and fear. Duck and cover. One response to 9/11.
 Official Selection, Toronto International Film Festival


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Mary Shelley’s writing combines with Boris Karloff’s performance to re-work the myth of Frankenstein. In five minutes the...

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A 'dog-u-mentary' about birth, loss and near death. The film follows three adults and a dog named Lola through Lola's pregnancy, the birth of her...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jay Rosenblatt

A 'dog-u-mentary' about birth, loss and near death. The film follows three adults and a dog named Lola through Lola's pregnancy, the birth of her...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jay Rosenblatt

A 'dog-u-mentary' about birth, loss and near death. The film follows three adults and a dog named Lola through Lola's pregnancy, the birth of her...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jay Rosenblatt

Period Piece is a 30 min. documentary about menarche--a girl's first menstrual period--which is a fundamental experience in every woman's life, yet...

Genre: Documentary

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Period Piece is a 30 min. documentary about menarche--a girl's first menstrual period--which is a fundamental experience in every woman's life, yet...

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An unscientific and comedic study of what happens when two people are hypnotized leading into an exhilarating journey into the unconscious mind (the...

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An old man reflects on his entire life. How quickly it all goes by.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jay Rosenblatt

An old man reflects on his entire life. How quickly it all goes by.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jay Rosenblatt

Filmmakers that were selected at Visions du Réel in the past twenty editions celebrate the Festival's anniversary by each making a short movie...

Genre: Documentary

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The trials and tribulations of truly independent filmmaking and the quest for the perfect shot.

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A haunting and humorous film about romantic relationships and insects.

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Take a chance. Don't do it. This is America. Do it.

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INQUIRE WITHIN is a hypnotic, apocalyptic examination of false choices, double binds, vulnerability and faith.

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When Stacey Ross unexpectedly died in 2007, her friends contacted filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt to complete a project she had only just begun. The result...

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Caveh Zahedi tells the story of a contentious encounter with a college security guard, a story about a moment's lapse into racism. The film attempts...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Caveh Zahedi

The Kodachrome elegies is a short documentary about a lost film stock, the loss of innocence and the end of an era.

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A film about fatherhood and the bond between a father and his infant daughter. The filmmaker documents the first eighteen months of the child’s...

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A collection of shorts made by various directors in response to 9/11.

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Three women are in enclosed psychological zones that function as both refuge and jail.

Genre: Family

Cast: Beverly Berning

Three women are in enclosed psychological zones that function as both refuge and jail.

Genre: Family

Cast: Beverly Berning

Three women are in enclosed psychological zones that function as both refuge and jail.

Genre: Family

Cast: Beverly Berning

A hand-processed celluloid invocation of Jesus’ last hours that hints at the relationship between the spirit and the flesh. Had there been...

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An imagined therapy session that obliquely suggests the seeds of "Trump" and the subsequent fear and anxiety he evokes.

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A father takes us through one year of trying to teach a preschooler how to make a film.

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... because it's Halloween.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ella Rosenblatt

A mind-boggling "coincidence" leads the filmmaker to track down his fifth grade class – and fifth grade teacher – to examine their memory...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mark Athitakis

A mind-boggling "coincidence" leads the filmmaker to track down his fifth grade class – and fifth grade teacher – to examine their memory...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mark Athitakis

A mind-boggling "coincidence" leads the filmmaker to track down his fifth grade class – and fifth grade teacher – to examine their memory...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mark Athitakis