Jay Rosenblatt Movies
- 2008
Beginning Filmmaking
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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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- 2016
When You Awake
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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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- 2007
I Just Wanted to Be Somebody
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Newsreels, commercials, and home movies are used to study the life and influence of Anita Bryant.
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- 1970
Friend Good
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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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- 2025
Heartbeat
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Shot 25 years ago, this intimate, disarming and emotionally raw documentary offers a privileged window into a couple (filmmakers Jay Rosenblatt and...
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- 2000
King of the Jews
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King of the Jews is a film about anti-Semitism and transcendence. Utilizing Hollywood movies, 1950's educational films, personal home movies and...
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- 2012
Inquire Within
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INQUIRE WITHIN is a hypnotic, apocalyptic examination of false choices, double binds, vulnerability and faith.
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- 2004
I Like It a Lot
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A two year old, an ice cream cone and a clean, white shirt.
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- 2005
The Film Within the Film
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Yerba Buena Center for the Arts commissions Caveh Zahedi to make a film.
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- 2001
Nine Lives (The Eternal Moment of Now)
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Exploring imagination, memories, dreams, or past lives of Pinky the cat.
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- 2017
The Kodachrome Elegies
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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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- 2001
Worm
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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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- 1999
Drop
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The trials and tribulations of truly independent filmmaking and the quest for the perfect shot.
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- 2015
A long way from home
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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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- 2011
The D Train
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An old man reflects on his entire life. How quickly it all goes by.
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- 2014
Trace of the future according to Jay Rosenblatt
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Filmmakers that were selected at Visions du Réel in the past twenty editions celebrate the Festival's anniversary by each making a short movie...
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- 2008
Four Questions for a Rabbi
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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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- 2000
Restricted
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Take a chance. Don't do it. This is America. Do it.
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- 2002
Prayer
Prayer52002HD
Faith and fear. Duck and cover. One response to 9/11. Official Selection, Toronto International Film Festival
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- 2017
Scared Very Scared
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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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