Jay Rosenblatt Movies

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

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

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,...

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

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...

A father takes us through one year of trying to teach a preschooler how to make a film.

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

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...

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

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...

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...

A haunting and humorous film about romantic relationships and insects.

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.


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


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

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