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The films listed below are available for rental in the formats and at the prices shown:
• I Just Wanted to Be Somebody (2006)
• Afraid So (2006)
• I'm Charlie Chaplin (2005)
• I Like It A Lot (2004)
• I Used To Be A Filmmaker (2003)
• Friend Good (2003)
• Prayer (2002)
• Decidi! (2002)
• Worm (2001)
• Nine Lives: The Eternal Moment of Now (2001)
• RESTRICTED (1999)
• drop (1999)
• a pregnant moment (1999)
• Short Of Breath (1990)
• Brain In The Desert (1990)
• Paris X 2 (1988)
• Blood Test (1985)
• Doubt (1981)
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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.
Credit List
A film by Jay Rosenblatt
Letter written and read by Fenton Johnson
Screenings
• Sundance Film Festival
• IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam)
• SF Frameline Film Festival
• Florida Rewind/Fast Forward Film Festival
• Palm Springs International Short Film Festival
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.
Credit List
A film by Jay Rosenblatt
Poem: Jeanne Marie Beaumont
Voice: Garrison Keillor
Screenings
• Rotterdam International Film Festival
• Toronto International Film Festival
• Black Maria Film Festival – 2nd Prize
• Ann Arbor Film Festival - Honorable Mention
• Tribeca Film Festival
• San Francisco International Film Festival
• Seattle International Film Festival
• Hamburg International Short Film Festival
• Vila do Conde Short Film Festival
• Uppsala Short Film Festival, Sweden
• Pesaro Film Festival
• European Media Arts Festival
• California State Fair - Award of Merit & Video Lab Multimedia Award
• Zebra Poetry Film Festival – Special Praising Mention
2005 • 8 minutes • Beta SP • color
Jay Rosenblatt
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I’M CHARLIE CHAPLIN is a documentary comedy, the third in a series featuring the filmmaker’s daughter, Ella. I’M CHARLIE CHAPLIN follows Ella trick or treating on Halloween at age 2 1/2. Unlike her peers, dressed as superheroes or fairy princesses, Ella wants to be Charlie Chaplin for Halloween. She loves The Little Tramp almost as much as she loves candy; the convergence of her two desires is almost more than she can handle. The film revisits her a year later on Halloween, a much more mature and credible Chaplin. The difference a year makes is quite remarkable.
Credit List
Director, Producer, Editor: Jay Rosenblatt
Camera: Thomas Logoreci
With: Ella Rosenblatt
Screenings
• Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival – Audience Award
• International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) Silver Wolf Competition
• It’s All True Documentary Film Festival, Brazil
• Tribeca Film Festival
• Ukranian International Documentary Film Festival
• Pesaro Film Festival, Italy
• Pårnu Film Festival, Estonia
• Athens Film Festival
• Newport Film Festival
• Nantucket Film Festival
• Norwegian Short Film Festival
• Vancouver International Film Festival
• Comedy Film festival, Montreal
• Boston Jewish Film Festival
• Denver International Film Festival
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.
Credit List
Director, Producer, Editor: Jay Rosenblatt
Camera: Thomas Logoreci
With: Ella Rosenblatt
Reviews
"I cannot end this... review without acknowledging the film that, in the entire festival, gave me the most unadulterated pleasure: Jay Rosenblatt’s I Like It A Lot. It is undoubtedly among the festival masterpieces, and I have already watched it six times, reduced to various degrees of happy hysteria. As an unashamed depiction of shameless sensual pleasure it rivals anything I can think of in or out of the festival, and all this in four minutes of screen time."
-Robin Wood, cineACTION,
Issue 65 Fall, 2004
Screenings
• Florida Film Festival
• Toronto International Film Festival
• Tribeca Film Festival
• International Documentary Film Festival, Amsterdam (IDFA)
• Palm Springs International Short Film Festival
• Florida Film Festival
• Atlanta Film Festival
• Athens Film and Video Festival
• Nantucket Film Festival
• Newport Film Festival
• Pesaro Film Festival, Italy
• Chicago International Film Festival
• Dallas Video Festival
• One Reel Film Festival
• Mill Valley Film Festival
• Williamstown Film Festival
• Denver International Film Festival
2003 • 10 min. • 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.
Credit List
Director, Producer, Editor: Jay Rosenblatt
Camera: Thomas Logoreci
With: Ella Rosenblatt
Reviews
"With the birth of his darling daughter Ella, Jay is inspired to find new meanings for the language that describes the technique of his career. Life and art are redefined in this hilarious and touching look at parenthood."
- Hot Docs Documentary Film Festival
"The biggest guilty pleasure of the ( Aspen Shortsfest) festival was veteran experimental filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt's "I Used to Be a Filmmaker." Close to the filmmaker's own heart, the piece centers on video of Rosenblatt's infant daughter over the first couple of years of her life. With an eye for framing important moments in a way only an established filmmaker could, Rosenblatt turns what is essentially a well-structured and witty home video into a joyous, funny, and touching work of art."
-Tim LaTorre, indieWire April 2003
"Known for his pamphlets composed from archive films, this year Jay Rosenblatt is producing a delightful cinema lesson in which he, together with his daughter Ella, is the main protagonist. Fatherhood has evidently upset the artist's daily life, distracting him from his editing table and obliging him to satisfy the infant's basic needs. As a model father, he changes his daughter's nappies, rocks and feeds her and watches her progress: her first words, first steps, discovery of the world. When videofilmed, these trivial episodes would smack of the blissful angelism of any family film if the filmmaker did not interpret the images in his own way. Each micro-sequence of this short film is introduced by a card bearing a technical term specific to cinematographic jargon. Thus the child's gestures take on a humoristic double meaning and behind the image of the thoughtful father there looms the meticulous film director. This shrewd diversion does not detract at all from the tenderness of the look. Despite the ironic distancing effect, I Used to Be a Filmmaker is a wonderful portrait of a father's love for his daughter. The crowning satisfaction comes at the end of the film when little Ella confidently affirms that she would like to become a filmmaker later on. She has just unwittingly taken part in the writing of the most delicate cinema lexicon ever conceived."
- Visions du Reel, Nyon, Switzerland
Screenings
• Aspen Shortsfest - Special Jury Award
• Nashville Film Festival – Best Documentary Short
• California State Fair – Award of Excellence
• Marin County Fair – Award winner
• Tribeca Film Festival
• Florida Film Festival
• Hot Docs, Toronto
• Visions du Reel, Nyon, Switzerland
• It’s All True Documentary Film Festival, Brazil
• USA Film Festival
• Atlanta Film Festival
• Vancouver International Film Festival
• Margaret Mead Film Festival
• Mill Valley Film Festival
• Maui Film Festival
• Sidewalk Film Festival
• Uppsala Film Festival
• Chicago International Film Festival
• Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival
• Sheffield Documentary Film Festival
• Palm Springs Short Film Festival
• Paris Rencontres
• One Reel Film Festival, Seattle,
• Viper Film Festival, Switzerland
• Cracow Film Festival
• Denver International Film Festival
• Pesaro Film Festival
• L’Alternativa Festival, Barcelona
• Nantucket Film Festival
• IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam)
• Encounters South African International Documentary Festival
• Docaviv, Israel
• Cinequest Film Festival, San Jose
• Rio Short Film Festival, Brazil
• Kansas City Jubilee
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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.
Credit List
a film by: Jay Rosenblatt
text: Mary Shelley
music: Benjamin Britten
with: Boris Karloff
Screenings
• Tampere Film Festival, Finland
• Ann Arbor Film Festival
• Nantucket Film Festival
• Pesaro Film Festival
• Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival
• Vancouver International Film Festival
• Denver International Film Festival
• Film Arts Festival, SF
2002 • 3 minutes • Beta SP • B&W
Jay Rosenblatt
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Faith and fear. Duck and cover. . One response to the events of September 11, 2001
Director's Statement
PRAYER is my contribution to the omnibus film "Underground Zero" which is a collection of shorts related to the events of September 11th. PRAYER presents a different side of Islam than we have been bombarded with by the media. It is also an attempt to show the connection between faith and fear. Today, more than ever, there is a need for diverse voices to be heard.
Credit List
A film by Jay Rosenblatt
Edited by Jay Rosenblatt
Music by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov
Screenings
• Toronto International Film Festival
• IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam)
• Tampere International Film Festival, Finland
• Black Maria Film Festival – 2nd Prize
• Aspen Shortsfest
• San Francisco International Film Festival
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?
Acquired by the Sundance Channel
2001 • 2 minutes • 16mm • Color
Jay Rosenblatt & Caveh Zahedi
16mm Rental: $25.
"Worm" is a true story about an inexplicable childhood event.
Awards
• Juror’s Choice Award - Convergence Film/Video/Animation Festival
Screenings
• Ann Arbor Film Festival & Tour
• Palm Springs International Short Film Festival
• Chicago Underground Film Festival
• Milan Film Festival
• Short Attention Span Festival Tour
• Dallas Video Festival
2001 • 1 minute • 16mm • Color/B&W
Jay Rosenblatt
16mm Rental price: $25.
A house cat dreams of her past lives.
Awards
• Best International Short, 1-Minute World Film Festival, 2001
• Best Short Short Award - Aspen Shortsfest
• Honorable Mention - Ann Arbor Film Festival
Screenings
• Sundance Film Festival
• Rotterdam Film Festival
• Oberhausen Film Festival
• Humboldt Film Festival
• Virginia Film Festival
• Florida Film Festival
• Images Film Festival, Toronto
• Nantucket Film Festival
• Sao Paulo International Shorts Film Festival
• Odense Film Festival, Denmark
• Rhode Island Film Festival
• Short Attention Span Film Festival Tour
• One-Reel Film Festival, Seattle
• Cinematexas Film Festival, Austin
• Brief Encounters Film Festival, UK
• L’Alternativa Festival, Barcelona
1999 • 1 minute • 16mm • color/B&W
Jay Rosenblatt
16mm Rental price: $25.
This is America. Do it.
Awards
• Experimental Award, Athens International Film and Video Festival
Screenings
• Sundance Film Festival
• Hamptons International Film Festival
• Shorts International Film Festival, N.Y.
• Hamburg International Short Film Festival (No-Budget)
• Ann Arbor Film Festival & Tour
• Florida Film Festival
• Film Arts Festival
• SF Cinematheque
• Bay Area Now
• Los Angeles Independent Film Festival
• Images Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
• IMPAKT Festival, The Netherlands
• Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema
• Short Attention Span Film Festival
• Film Forum, New York (part of one-week theatrical run)
• Artists Television Access, San Francisco
1999 • 1 minute • 35mm • color
Dina Ciraulo & Jay Rosenblatt
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The trials and tribulations of truly independent filmmaking and the quest for the perfect shot.
Screenings
• Classically Independent Film Fest. SF
• Denver International Film Festival
• Mill Valley Film Festival
• Hamptons International Film Festival
• Film Arts Festival, SF
1999 • 24 min. • 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.
Screenings
• Sundance Film Festival
• Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema
• Athens International Film & Video Festival
• Denver International Film Festival
• Independent Film Channel
Awards
• Best Editing - Ann Arbor Film Festival
• Honorable Mention - Marin County Fair Film Festival
1990 • 16mm • color/B&W • 10 min.
Jay Rosenblatt
16mm Rental price: $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.
Awards
• Best of Category, Bay Area Short Subjects, Golden Gate Awards, San Francisco International Film Festival
• First Prize, Experimental Narrative, Athens International Film Festival
• Best Editing Award, Humboldt International Film Festival
• Judges' Commendation, Bucks County Independent Film Festival
• Second Place, Independent Film Category, Marin County Fair
• Sinking Creek Film Festival
Screenings
• New Directors/New Films, New York, NY
• Sundance Film Festival, Park City UT
• Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
• Pesaro International Film Festival, Pesaro ITALY
• Melbourne International Film Festival, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
• International Found Footage Film Festival, Vienna AUSTRIA
• No-Budget Film Festival, Hamburg, GERMANY
• Film Arts Festival, San Francisco, CA
• San Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA
• Charlotte Film and Video Festival, Charlotte NC
• New York Film Expo
• Bucks County Independent Film Festival Tour (10 cities)
• Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour (12 cities)
Acquired by the Chicago Art Institute and Northwest Film Center for their collections.
1990 • 16mm • color • 5 min.
Jay Rosenblatt and Jennifer Frame
16mm Rental price: $30.
A haunting and humorous film about romantic relationships and insects.
Awards
• Judges' Commendation, Bucks County Independent Film Festival
• Sinking Creek Film Festival
Screenings
• Denver International Film Festival
• Ann Arbor Film Festival
• Athens International Film Festival, Ohio
• Film Arts Festival, San Francisco
• San Francisco Cinematheque
• San Francisco State Film Finals
• Bucks County Independent Festival Tour (10 cities)
• Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
1988 • 16mm • color • 26 min.
Jay Rosenblatt
16mm Rental price: $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."
Awards
• 1st Prize, Onion City Film Festival
• Director's Choice, Sinking Creek Film Festival
• Palo Alto Film and Video Festival
Screenings
• York Theater, San Francisco, CA
• San Francisco State Film Finals, San Francisco, CA.
• Film Arts Festival, San Francisco, CA
• Denver International Film Festival, Denver, CO
• Santa Fe Film Expo, Santa Fe, NM
• Collective for Living Cinema, New York, NY
• Cork International Film Festival, Cork, Ireland
• San Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA
Acquired by the Videotheque de Paris for their collection
1985 • 16mm • B&W • 27 min.
Jay Rosenblatt
16mm Rental price: $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.
Awards
• Ann Arbor Film Festival
• Sinking Creek Film Festival
• Kinetic Film Festival
Screenings
• S.F. State Film Finals
• Film Arts Foundation screening, S.F.
• Cinema 7, Eugene, OR.
• KQED Independent Focus
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.
Screenings
• ATA. SF
• El Rio, SF
• Cinema 7, Eugene, OR.
Jay Rosenblatt Films
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