Jay Rosenblatt Movies

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

... because it's Halloween.

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

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

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...

Found Footage Rock Video

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

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...


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


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

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

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

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



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

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

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

A haunting and humorous film about romantic relationships and insects.

Caveh Zahedi tells the story of a contentious encounter with a college security guard, a story about a moment's lapse into racism. The film attempts...

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

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