Jay Rosenblatt Movies

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...

Mary Shelley’s writing combines with Boris Karloff’s performance to re-work the myth of Frankenstein. In five minutes the...

... because it's Halloween.

The Kodachrome elegies is a short documentary about a lost film stock, the loss of innocence and the end of an era.

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...

A 'dog-u-mentary' about birth, loss and near death. The film follows three adults and a dog named Lola through Lola's pregnancy, the birth of her...

An old man reflects on his entire life. How quickly it all goes by.

Caveh Zahedi tells the story of a contentious encounter with a college security guard, a story about a moment's lapse into racism. The film attempts...

A father takes us through one year of trying to teach a preschooler how to make a film.

A haunting and humorous film about romantic relationships and insects.

Take a chance. Don't do it. This is America. Do it.

An unscientific and comedic study of what happens when two people are hypnotized leading into an exhilarating journey into the unconscious mind (the...

A hand-processed celluloid invocation of Jesus’ last hours that hints at the relationship between the spirit and the flesh. Had there been...


Faith and fear. Duck and cover. One response to 9/11.
 Official Selection, Toronto International Film Festival


INQUIRE WITHIN is a hypnotic, apocalyptic examination of false choices, double binds, vulnerability and faith.

Exploring imagination, memories, dreams, or past lives of Pinky the cat.

Found Footage Rock Video

Newsreels, commercials, and home movies are used to study the life and influence of Anita Bryant.

An imagined therapy session that obliquely suggests the seeds of "Trump" and the subsequent fear and anxiety he evokes.

A two year old, an ice cream cone and a clean, white shirt.