Jay Rosenblatt Movies

Just moments before his third wedding, Zahedi relates with utter sincerity and astonishing candor his obsession with prostitutes. He retraces his...

For 17 years, filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt filmed his daughter Ella on her birthday in the same spot, asking her the same questions. In just 29 minutes,...

A mind-boggling "coincidence" leads the filmmaker to track down his fifth grade class – and fifth grade teacher – to examine their memory...

The Darkness of Day is a haunting meditation on suicide. It is comprised entirely of found 16mm footage that had been discarded. The sadness, the...

A haunting documentary on the pains of growing up male. It explores the inner and outer cruelties that boys perpetrate and endure. The film provokes...

Human Remains is a haunting documentary which illustrates the banality of evil by creating intimate portraits of five of the 20th century's most...

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

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...

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.

Three women are in enclosed psychological zones that function as both refuge and jail.

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...

Found Footage Rock Video

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 film about fear and anxiety. 
Official Selection, Toronto International Film Festival



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...

King of the Jews is a film about anti-Semitism and transcendence. Utilizing Hollywood movies, 1950's educational films, personal home movies and...

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


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