Jay Rosenblatt Filmes

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

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

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

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

This emotionally raw and intimate documentary, shot 25 years ago, follows a couple - the filmmakers - in their complicated journey towards bringing a...

A haunting and humorous film about romantic relationships and insects.

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...

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


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


Found Footage Rock Video

Shot 25 years ago, this intimate, disarming and emotionally raw documentary offers a privileged window into a couple (filmmakers Jay Rosenblatt and...

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

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

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...

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...

... because it's Halloween.

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

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

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

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