The Darkness of Day

The D Train


Beginning Filmmaking

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RECENT RELEASES

The D Train
An old man reflects on his life. 
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The Darkness of Day
A film about suicide.
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The Films of Jay Rosenblatt - Vol. 1
A collection of 5 award winning collage films (1990-2000)
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Beginning Filmmaking
A filmmaker takes a new student under his wing with
surprising results over the course of a very challenging year.
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UPCOMING/RECENT EVENTS

October 25, 2011 - Stranger Than Fiction show at IFC Center, New York City.

October 11-16, 2011 - Retrospective at Valdivia International Film Festival, Chile.

September 16-17, 2011 - Two shows at CinemaSpace, The Segal Centre for Performing Arts, Montreal, Canada

April 7-13, 2011 - Major Retrospective at Visions du Reel Film Festival in Nyon, Switzerland. Visions du Reel Catalog.pdf

April 29-30, 2011 - Retrospective at Wexner Art Center in Ohio.

April, 2011 - The D Train will screen at SXSW, Tribeca Film Festival, Play Doc, and San Francisco International Film Festival.

February 3-4, 2011 - Retrospective at Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.

RECENT AWARDS AND SCREENINGS

The D Train was awarded Best Short Documentary at Play Doc in Spain and a Jury Diploma at Message to Man International Film Festival in Russia.

MoMA presents The Darkness of Day: Recent Films by Jay Rosenblatt

The Darkness of Day was awarded Best Short Film in the International Official Competition of the Cali International Film Festival in Colombia and Best Documentary at the Tampere Film Festival in Finland.  It has also won Best Short Documentary at Krakow Film Festival in Poland, It's All True in Brazil and Play Doc in Spain as well as Special Mentions at Punto De Vista Film Festival in Spain, Dokufest in Kosova and DOXA, Vancouver. 

Beginning Filmmaking is part of the American Documentary Showcase, a curated program of contemporary documentaries that is offered to US Embassies around the world.

USA Artists Fellowship

RECENT PRESS

October, 2011 - La vida nos estremece: Download pdf of short book by Udo Jacobsen (in Spanish) about Jay Rosenblatt's films

March, 2011 - Interview by Max Goldberg in SF360

March 30, 2011 - Review by Cynthia Fuchs in PopMatters

March 26, 2011 - Review by Valerie Milano in Hollywood Today

December 28, 2010 - YEAR IN FILM: Digging Through the Year in Archival Footage in SF Bay Guardian

October 13, 2010 - How to Make the Grim Appear Artfully Beautiful by Mike Hale in New York Times

Fall Issue, 2010 - Poetry in Motion: Interview by Peter Bowen in FILMMAKER

October 13, 2010 - Jay Rosenblatt Keeps on Digging in The Darkness of Day by Michelle Orange in The Village Voice

October 12, 2010 - "Darkness" indeed: Jay Rosenblatt's recent films get a one-week run at MOMA--whew!" by James Van Maanen in Trust Movies

October 2010  - The Filmmaker as Therapist by George Robinson in Jewish Week

October 2010 - The Darkness of Day: Recent Films by Jay Rosenblatt in This Week in New York blog

January 2010 - Analysis of Jay Rosenblatt's Films in Senses of Cinema, Issue 53

Winter 2010 - The Tyranny of Memory: The Films of Jay Rosenblatt, Volume 1 in Documentary

October 2009 - The Films of Jay Rosenblatt, Vol. 1 DVD review in SF Chronicle.