Jay Rosenblatt Movies

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

Mary Shelley’s writing combines with Boris Karloff’s performance to re-work the myth of Frankenstein. In five minutes the...

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

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

Take a chance. Don't do it. This is America. Do it.

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...

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

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

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

A haunting and humorous film about romantic relationships and insects.

... because it's Halloween.

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



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

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

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

Found Footage Rock Video

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

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

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...

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