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A brief description of all Jay Rosenblatt's films, listed chronologically. For more details see the film pages linked below or Other Films.
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2006 • 10 minutes • Beta SP • color
Jay Rosenblatt
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What do the religious right and the gay liberation movement have in common? Both were fortified by the efforts of one woman – Anita Bryant. Part document and part poem, “I Just Wanted To Be Somebody” brings us back to the late 1970’s and reflects on Bryant’s life and the impact she had.
2006 • 3 minutes • Beta SP • B&W/color
Jay Rosenblatt
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AFRAID SO is about fear and anxiety. It is based on a poem where each line forms a question with the implied response being “Afraid so”. Impending doom permeates the film.
2005 • 28 minutes • 35mm & Beta SP • color/B&W
Jay Rosenblatt
DVD Sale $195, DVD Rental $45
The death of a child triggers this collection of personal reflections on grief and loss. (Phantom Limb is the illusion that a limb still exists after it has been amputated).
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2005 • 8 minutes • Beta SP • color
Jay Rosenblatt
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A little girl’s love for Charlie Chaplin and candy. (The third film in a series featuring the filmmaker’s daughter.)
2004 • 4 minutes • Beta SP • color
Jay Rosenblatt
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A two year old, an ice cream cone and a clean, white shirt.
2003 • 10 minutes • 35mm & Beta SP • color
Jay Rosenblatt
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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 life, showing the progression from newborn to infant to toddler.
2003 • 5 minutes • 16mm • B&W
Jay Rosenblatt
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Mary Shelley’s writing combines with Boris Karloff’s performance to re-work the story of Frankenstein. In five minutes the "monster" moves through the very human journey from self-hatred to self-acceptance.
2002 • 3 minutes • Beta SP • B&W
Jay Rosenblatt
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Faith and fear. Duck and cover.
2002 • 1 minute • Beta SP • color
Jay Rosenblatt & Stephanie Rapp
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It is either about indecision or maybe it is about making a decision. Maybe both?
2001 • 2 minutes • 16mm • color
Jay Rosenblatt & Caveh Zahedi
16mm Rental price: $25.
"Worm" is a true story about an inexplicable childhood event.
2001 • 1 minute • 16mm
Jay Rosenblatt
16mm Rental price: $25.
A house cat dreams of her past lives.
2000 • 18 minutes • 16mm • color/B&W
Jay Rosenblatt
DVD & VHS Sale $195, DVD & VHS Rental $45
16mm Rental price: $95.
A film about fear and transcendence. It explores my relationship to Jesus Christ as a Jewish boy growing up in Brooklyn. At the same time, it examines the roots of Christian anti-Semitism. As a child, I was terrified of Jesus.
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1999 • 1 minute • 16mm color/B&W
Jay Rosenblatt
16mm Rental price: $25.
This is America. Do it.
1999 • 1 minute • 35mm • color
Dina Ciraulo & Jay Rosenblatt
The trials and tribulations of truly independent filmmaking and the quest for the perfect shot.
1999 • 24 minutes• 16mm/color
Jay Rosenblatt & Jennifer Frame
16mm rental price: $75.
A 'dog-u-mentary' about birth, loss and near death. The film follows 3 adults and 1 dog named Lola through Lola's pregnancy, the birth of her puppies, and the loss of each puppy to their new owners. Often funny and ultimately sad, the piece explores our love and attachments to dogs and our projections onto animals.
1998 • 30 minutes •16mm color/B&W
Jay Rosenblatt
DVD & VHS Sale $195, DVD & VHS Rental $45
16mm Rental $95
A haunting documentary which illustrates the banality of evil by creating intimate portraits of five of this century’s most reviled dictators. The film unveils the personal lives of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Francisco Franco and Mao Tse Tung.
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1996 • 30 minutes • Beta SP color •
Jennifer Frame & Jay Rosenblatt
DVD & VHS Sale $195, DVD & VHS Rental $45
with study guide
A documentary about menarche --a girl's first menstrual period -- which is a fundamental experience in every woman's life, yet one that is rarely celebrated. Period Piece demystifies for both men and women one of women's most formative experiences. An entertaining and heartfelt film about a topic long considered taboo.
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1994 • 21 min. • 16mm color/b&w
Jay Rosenblatt
DVD & VHS Sale $195, DVD & VHS Rental $45
16mm Rental $95
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A haunting documentary on the pains of growing up male. It explores the inner and outer cruelties that boys perpetrate and endure. The film raises gender issues and provokes the viewer to reflect on how our society can deprive boys of wholeness.
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1990 • 16mm color/B&W • 10 min.
Jay Rosenblatt
16 MM Rental: $45.
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 brain. A boy inherits his mother's depression. Short Of Breath is a haunting, emotional collage about birth, death, sex and suicide. It's like a punch in the stomach.
"Short of Breath is a Rorschach test with moving images instead of ink blots."
-Vincent Canby, NY Times.
1990 • 16mm color • 5 min.
Jay Rosenblatt and Jennifer Frame
16mm Rental: $30.
A haunting and humorous film about romantic relationships and insects.
1988 • 16mm color • 26 min.
Jay Rosenblatt
16mm Rental: $80.
"From the apartment, the light is blue. Paris was those rooftops."
This is a story about love and about love stories. It is about the static and the electricity. The pain of letting go and the attempt to re-capture. An American man is obsessed with a French woman who is obsessed by films. This is an experimental re-telling of a love affair through fragments and distortions of memory. Filmic images are transformed into electronic paintings. The narrative and myths of romantic love are deconstructed against a backdrop of Paris and Hollywood. It is also about the love of cinema being destroyed by video.
"She said these are stolen images. They're not to be taken lightly."
1985 • 16mm B&W • 27 min.
Jay Rosenblatt
16mm Rental $80
A man visits his parents and empties the contents of his mind through a series of absurd and serious vignettes. The film explores the dynamics which form identity and self and at the same time help to deny them. The therapeutic relationship is enacted metaphorically with the parents "on the couch" and the son as the therapist. Some chilling moments are reached.
1981 • 16mm B&W 11 min.
Jay Rosenblatt
16mm Rental price: $35
Given the context of atrocity, one individual, a night watchman who sleeps by day, faces his existential aloneness in the confines of his motel room.
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