THE FILMS OF JAY ROSENBLATT - VOLUME 1

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Jay Rosenblatt is a master practitioner of found footage filmmaking. Working since the 1980s, Rosenblatt’s films uniquely deal with the human condition – incorporating the passage of time, birth and childhood, the experience of personal, family and community space, religious faith and tyranny, mortality and death, and the function of memory in evoking emotional states. Rosenblatt’s films are psychologically gripping, often bringing the spectator to the darker places of the human experience, including fear and anxiety, loss, grief, and mourning.

King of the Jews is a film about fear and transcendence. Utilizing Hollywood movies, 1950's educational films, personal home movies and religious films spanning the history of cinema.

Rosenblatt’s professional work in the mental health field helped him acutely understand the individual’s interior states of being. He has been quoted as saying, “I’m not a therapist anymore – I used to be one years ago. The training – getting my undergraduate degree in psychology and masters in counseling – can certainly be seen in the way a lot of my films deal with the psyche and are psychological in nature. Even though I stopped doing therapy per se, I still find myself doing it through film, with a much bigger audience. The same motivation of wanting to help people heal is present in many of the films, trying to shine the light on issues and have people use my films as a catalyst to deal with them.”

Rosenblatt as a filmmaker frequently begins his movies with a personal experience that then extends, by the end of each of his films, to a commentary on the universal human condition. Unique among his found footage contemporaries,his collages begin with a mood or a tone, and gradually build to evoke emotional responses in the viewer’s experience. These are exquisite, sensitive, poetic films.

 

THE FILMS OF JAY ROSENBLATT - VOLUME 1
(US, 1990-2000)

Director: Jay Rosenblatt

RESTRICTED (1999, 1:06)
SHORT OF BREATH (1990, 10:21)
THE SMELL OF BURNING ANTS (1994, 21:16)
HUMAN REMAINS (1998, 29:33)
KING OF THE JEWS (2000, 18:06)

Bonus Material included with DVD

BRAIN IN THE DESERT (1990, 4:23 ) co-directed with Jennifer Frame
Distribution Format/s: DSL/Downloadable Standard Definition file/s on server; DVD

Total Running Time: 01:25:00

Language: English

Booklet Text: Ray Carney

Published By: Locomotion Films

Institutional Price: DSL $500; DVD $295

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