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A selection of his films had one-week
Jay Rosenblatt's films explore our emotional and psychological cores. They are personal in their content yet universal in their appeal.
Phantom Limb premiered at the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam (IDFA) in the Silver Wolf Competition and has screened at some of the most prestigious film festivals in the world. It has won several awards including Best Documentary at the Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival, and Best Short Documentary at the Florida Film Festival. Other recent films include Afraid So, I Just Wanted to be Somebody, I’m Charlie Chaplin, I Like It A Lot and his current work-in-progress, “Suicide”.
One week after the events of September 11th, Jay and fellow filmmaker Caveh Zahedi put out a call to over 150 experimental and documentary filmmakers asking for contributions to a collective film project addressing those events and their aftermath. The response was overwhelming and project entitled Underground Zero was the result. Underground Zero showed at venues around the country and was broadcast on Cinemax on September 11, 2002. Besides being co-producer of the project, Jay contributed the film Prayer, which has screened at such festivals as the Toronto International Film Festival, Tampere Film Festival and IDFA.
In 2001, Nine Lives (The Eternal Moment of Now) was screened at Sundance and won the Best Short Short Award at the Aspen Shortsfest. In 2000, King of the Jews, was also screened at Sundance and won the Grand Prize at the USA Film Festival. Human Remains (1998) won an award at the Sundance Film Festival and went on to win 26 awards worldwide.
The Smell of Burning Ants won Grand Prize at the 1995 Hamburg International Short Film Festival and went on to win 22 additional awards. It has shown at the Locarno International Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Tampere Film Festival and the London Film Festival among others. Short Of Breath was shown at the Rotterdam Film Festival, Sundance and New Directors/New Films.
Jay is originally from New York and has lived in San Francisco for many years. He has been a film and video production instructor since 1989 at various film schools in the Bay Area, including Stanford University, S.F. State University, S.F. Art Institute and the College of San Mateo. He has a Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology and, in a former life, worked as a therapist.
Filmography
- I Just Wanted to Be Somebody (2006)
- Afraid So (2006)
- Phantom Limb (2005)
- I'm Charlie Chaplin (2005)
- I Like It A Lot (2004)
- I Used To Be A Filmmaker (2003)
- Friend Good (2003)
- Prayer (2002)
- Underground Zero (2002) co-producer
- Decidi! (2002) co-directed with Stephanie Rapp
- Worm (2001) co-directed with Caveh Zahedi
- Nine Lives: The Eternal Moment of Now (2001)
- King of the Jews (2000)
- RESTRICTED (1999)
- drop (1999) co-directed with Dina Ciraulo
- a pregnant moment (1999) co-directed with Jennifer Frame
- Human Remains (1998)
- Period Piece (1996) co-directed with Jennifer Frame
- The Smell of Burning Ants (1994)
- Short Of Breath (1990)
- Brain In The Desert (1990) co-directed with Jennifer Frame
- Paris X 2 (1988)
- Blood Test (1985)
- Doubt (1981)
- The Session (1980)
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