Jay Rosenblatt Movies
- 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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- 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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- 2005
Phantom Limb
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The death of my seven-year-old brother when I was nine remains a painful and haunting memory. My parents did not know how to cope with the loss of...
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- 2017
Filmmakers Unite (FU)
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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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- 1990
Brain in the Desert
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A haunting and humorous film about romantic relationships and insects.
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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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- 2003
I Used to Be a Filmmaker
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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...
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- 2002
Prayer
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Faith and fear. Duck and cover. One response to 9/11. Official Selection, Toronto International Film Festival
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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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- 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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- 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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- 1996
Period Piece
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Period Piece is a 30 min. documentary about menarche--a girl's first menstrual period--which is a fundamental experience in every woman's life, yet...
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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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- 2006
Afraid So
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A film about fear and anxiety. Official Selection, Toronto International Film Festival
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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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- 2011
Way to Your Heart
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Found Footage Rock Video
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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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- 1991
Short of Breath
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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...
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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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