Jay Rosenblatt Movies

An off-screen narrator remembers a time he was five years old, walking to school in a heavy rain, wearing a yellow slicker and cap. He relates to us...

The trials and tribulations of truly independent filmmaking and the quest for the perfect shot.

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...

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

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

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


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


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...

Found Footage Rock Video

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...

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

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.

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

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

A haunting and humorous film about romantic relationships and insects.

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