Jay Rosenblatt
2) Phantom Limb
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
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 their child and the entire family experienced indescribable pain. Phantom Limb uses this personal story as a point of departure. Whether it is a loss through death or divorce, the stages of grieving are the same. Individuals often go through denial, anger, bargaining, depression and, ultimately, some kind...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The Smell of Burning Ants is 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 the viewer to reflect on how our society can deprive boys of wholeness. Through formative events of a boy’s life, we come to understand the ways in which men can become emotionally disconnected and alienated from their feminine side. The common dismissal that “boys will...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
What do the religious right and the gay liberation movement have in common? Both were fortified by the efforts of one woman - Anita Bryant. Part document and part poem, I Just Wanted to Be Somebody brings us back to the late 1970's and reflects on Bryant's life and the impact she had. The film is comprised of news footage, commercials and Bryant's own home movies. Clips from I Just Wanted to Be Somebody appear in Gus Van Zant's film Milk.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When Stacey Ross unexpectedly died in 2007, her friends contacted filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt to complete a project she had only just begun. The result is Four Questions for a Rabbi, a film that touches upon issues of identity, persecution and mortality.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Human Remains is a haunting documentary which illustrates the banality of evil by creating intimate portraits of five of the 20th century's most reviled dictators. The film unveils the personal lives of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Francisco Franco and Mao Tse Tung. We learn the private and mundane details of their everyday lives -- their favorite foods, films, habits and sexual preferences. There is no mention of their public lives...
9) Period Piece
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Period Piece is a 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 with candor and humor. Their poignant stories reveal feelings about womanhood, family dynamics and society's complicated attitude toward menstruation. Interspersed throughoutPeriod Piece,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
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 isolation, and the desire to escape are recorded on film in various contexts. Voice-over readings from the journal kept by a brother of the filmmaker's friend who committed suicide in 1990 intermix with a range of compelling stories, from the poignant double suicide of an elderly American couple to a Japanese...
