Jay Rosenblatt Movies

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


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


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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

Found Footage Rock Video

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

A haunting and humorous film about romantic relationships and insects.

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...

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.

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