Jay Rosenblatt Movies

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

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...

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

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

Filmmakers that were selected at Visions du Réel in the past twenty editions celebrate the Festival's anniversary by each making a short movie...

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...

A haunting and humorous film about romantic relationships and insects.

Shot 25 years ago, this intimate, disarming and emotionally raw documentary offers a privileged window into a couple (filmmakers Jay Rosenblatt and...

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

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

When Stacey Ross unexpectedly died in 2007, her friends contacted filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt to complete a project she had only just begun. The result...

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

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


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


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

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

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

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

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