I Used to Be a Filmmaker
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 life, showing the progression from newborn to infant to toddler.
Jay Rosenblatt
Also Directed by Jay Rosenblatt
Three women are in enclosed psychological zones that function as both refuge and jail.
A father takes us through one year of trying to teach a preschooler how to make a film.
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 one that is rarely celebrated. Women of different ages (8-84) and multi-cultural backgrounds tell their menarchal stories.
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 that a boy he'd never seen before ran up to him and said that it was raining worms. Our lad of five is on the cusp between believing anything he hears and entering the age of reason. He asks for proof. He holds out his hand.
Faith and fear. Duck and cover. One response to 9/11. Official Selection, Toronto International Film Festival
Found Footage Rock Video
An imagined therapy session that obliquely suggests the seeds of "Trump" and the subsequent fear and anxiety he evokes.
A haunting and humorous film about romantic relationships and insects.
A 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.