Jay Rosenblatt
Director
Jay Rosenblatt is an American experimental documentary filmmaker known for his work in the field of collage film since 1980.
Movies10
Movie4.9DocumentaryA mind-boggling "coincidence" leads the filmmaker to track down his fifth grade class – and fifth grade teacher – to examine their memory of and complicity in a bullying incident fifty years ago.
When We Were Bullies
2021 · 27 votes
Movie7.0DocumentaryComedyOn January 1st, 1999, Caveh Zahedi started a one-year video diary. The idea was to shoot one minute each day. This is the result.
In the Bathtub of the World
2001 · 3 votes
Movie5.5ComedyRomanceJust moments before his third wedding, Zahedi relates with utter sincerity and astonishing candor his obsession with prostitutes. He retraces his romantic and sexual history, including his ideological commitment to open relationships, that led to two disastrous marriages and several very pissed off ex-girlfriends.
I Am a Sex Addict
2006 · 54 votes
Movie8.0ComedyDramaIndependent Filmmaker Caveh Zahedi is trying to make a television show. He persuades BRIC TV, a Brooklyn non-profit Arts organization, to finance a television show whose premise is that every episode will be about the making of the previous episode. In the process of creating the show, everything can-and does-go wrong. The cast, a who's who of Brooklyn's independent filmmaking community, includes Alex Karpovsky, Eleonore Hendricks, Dustin Defa, and Onur Tukel.
The Show About the Show
2017 · 2 votes
Movie6.5DocumentaryFor 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, we watch her grow from a toddler to a young woman with all the beautiful and sometimes awkward stages in between. Each phase is captured fleetingly but makes an indelible mark. Her responses to her father’s questions are just a backdrop for a deeper story of parental love, acceptance, and ultimately, independence.
How Do You Measure a Year?
2021 · 31 votes
MovieDocumentaryYerba Buena Center for the Arts commissions Caveh Zahedi to make a film.
- Movie9.0Documentary
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 puppies, and the loss of each puppy to their new owners. Often funny and ultimately sad, the piece explores our love and attachments to dogs and our projections onto animals.
A Pregnant Moment
1 votes
Movie7.3DocumentaryA film about fatherhood and the bond between a father and his infant daughter. The filmmaker documents the first eighteen months of the child’s life, showing the progression from newborn to infant to toddler.
I Used to Be a Filmmaker
2003 · 3 votes
- Movie6.0DramaFamily
An old man reflects on his entire life. How quickly it all goes by.
The D Train
2011 · 5 votes
Movie8.0DocumentaryKing of the Jews is a film about anti-Semitism and transcendence. Utilizing Hollywood movies, 1950's educational films, personal home movies and religious films, the filmmaker depicts his childhood fear of Jesus Christ. These childhood recollections are a point of departure for larger issues such as the roots of Christian anti-Semitism.
King of the Jews
2000 · 2 votes