Jay Rosenblatt (filmmaker)

Jay Rosenblatt (born 1955)^[1] is an American experimental documentary filmmaker known for his work in the field of collage film since 1980.^[2]

Themes

His films explore human emotional, personal and psychological cores (e.g.: the private lives of Hitler and Stalin in Human Remains, growing up male in The Smell of Burning Ants).^{[3][4][5][6][7][8][9]}

Filmography

• The Smell of Burning Ants (1994)
• Human Remains (1998)
• Nine Lives: The Eternal Moment of Now (2001)
• Worm (2001)
• Prayer (2002)
• Phantom Limb (2005)
• Afraid So (2006)
• I Just Wanted to Be Somebody (2006)
• The Darkness of Day (2009)
• The D Train (2011)
• When We Were Bullies (2021)^[10]
• How Do You Measure a Year? (2022)^[11]

Sources:^{[12][13][14][15][16][17][18]}

Accolades

• Sundance Jury Award for Human Remains^[19]
• 94th Academy Awards: Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) – nomination for When We Were Bullies^[20][21]
• 95th Academy Awards: Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) – nomination for How Do You Measure a Year?^[22]