Jay ROSENBLATT

Nationality: American

Jay ROSENBLATT is an internationally recognized artist and a two-time Academy Award® nominated filmmaker who has completed over thirty films. His work explores our emotional and psychological cores. They are personal in their content yet universal in their appeal.

Jay’s films have received over 100 awards and have screened throughout the world. A selection of his films had theatrical runs at the Film Forum in New York and at theaters around the country. He also had a feature length program of work screen for a week at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Nine of his films have been at the Sundance Film Festival, nine of his films have screened at IDFA and several of his films have shown on HBO/Cinemax, PBS and the Sundance Channel. Articles about his work have appeared in the Sunday NY Times Arts & Leisure section, the LA Times, the NY Times and Filmmaker.

Jay is a recipient of a Guggenheim, USA Artists and a Rockefeller Fellowship. He has been a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 2002 and served on the Executive Committee of the Documentary Branch for nine years.

Jay is originally from New York and has lived in San Francisco for many years. He was a film and video production instructor from 1989 – 2010 at various film schools in the Bay Area, including Stanford University, S.F. State University, and the San Francisco Art Institute. He is currently the Program Director of the Jewish Film Institute (presenters of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival). He has a Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology and, in a former life, worked as a therapist.

24 MOVIES IN DISTRIBUTION

  WHEN WE WERE BULLIES
2021 / HD / color / sound / single screen / 35' 21 / 150 €
distribution: Digital file on USB stick
THE KODACHROME ELEGIES
2017 / HD / color-b&w / sound / single screen / 11' 00 / 48 €
distribution: Digital file on server
SCARED VERY SCARED
2017 / HD / b&w / sound / single screen / 6' 49 / 42 €
distribution: Digital file on server
WHEN YOU AWAKE
2016 / HD / color-b&w / sound / single screen / 11' 15 / 49 €
distribution: Digital file on server
A LONG WAY FROM HOME
2015 / HD / color / sound / single screen / 2' 50 / 24 €
distribution: Digital file on server
THE CLAUSTRUM
2014 / HD / color-b&w / sound / single screen / 16' 35 / 70 €
distribution: Digital file on server
INQUIRE WITHIN
2012 / 16mm / color-b&w / sound / single screen / 3' 40 / 29 €
distribution: Digital file on server
THE D TRAIN
2010-2011 / 16mm / color-b&w / sound / single screen / 4' 45 / 36 €
distribution: Digital file on server
  THE DARKNESS OF DAY
2005-2009 / 16mm / color-b&w / sound / single screen / 25' 50 / 103 €
distribution: Digital file on server
FOUR QUESTIONS FOR A RABBI
2008 / 16mm / color-b&w / sound / single screen / 12' 00 / 53 €
distribution: Digital file on server
AFRAID SO
2006 / 16mm / color-b&w / sound / single screen / 2' 40 / 24 €
distribution: Digital file on server
I JUST WANTED TO BE SOMEBODY
2005-2006 / 16mm / color-b&w / sound / single screen / 9' 50 / 44 €
distribution: Digital file on server
  PHANTOM LIMB
2005 / 16mm / color-b&w / sound / single screen / 27' 50 / 109 €
distribution: Digital file on server
FRIEND GOOD
2003 / 35mm / b&w / sound / single screen / 5' 00 / 37 €
distribution: Digital file on server
I USED TO BE A FILMMAKER
2001-2003 / DVCAM / color / sound / single screen / 10' 18 / 45 €
distribution: Digital file on server
PRAYER
2002 / 16mm / b&w / sound / single screen / 2' 39 / 24 €
distribution: Digital file on server
NINE LIVES (THE ETERNAL MOMENT OF NOW)
2001 / 16mm / color-b&w / sound / single screen / 1' 00 / 24 €
distribution: 16mm or Digital file on server or Mini DV
WORM
2001 / 16mm / color / sound / single screen / 2' 00 / 24 €
distribution: 16mm or Digital file on server
  KING OF THE JEWS
2000 / 16mm / color-b&w / sound / single screen / 18' 00 / 76 €
distribution: 16mm or Digital file on server
RESTRICTED
1999 / 16mm / color-b&w / sound / single screen / 1' 00 / 24 €
distribution: 16mm or Digital file on server
  HUMAN REMAINS
1998 / 16mm / b&w / sound / single screen / 30' 00 / 116 €
distribution: 16mm or Digital file on USB stick
  THE SMELL OF BURNING ANTS
1994 / 16mm / color-b&w / sound / single screen / 21' 00 / 86 €
distribution: 16mm or Digital file on server
BRAIN IN THE DESERT
1990 / 16mm & DVD / color / sound / single screen / 4' 22 / 34 €
distribution: Digital file on server
SHORT OF BREATH
1990 / color / sound / single screen / 10' 00 / 44 €
distribution: 16mm or Digital file on server