Short Attention Span Cinema: Jay Rosenblatt
Friday, January 27 - Thursday, April 19, 2012
A six-film series of shorts by the acclaimed filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt will play before our regular features, with each film screening for two weeks. The series features five works in Rosenblatt’s signature style—found footage mined from forgotten sources like mid-20th century educational films, accompanied by new narration to often unsettling, or even ominous, effect—as well as a 2004 short representative of a new, more personal direction in some of his recent films.
Hailed as an “archive-driven artist who burrows his themes into a collaged continuum of found images” by critic Michelle Orange in the Village Voice, Jay Rosenblatt has been working as an independent filmmaker since 1980 and has over twenty-five films to his credit. His work has received over 100 awards and has screened throughout the world in such prestigious venues as the Sundance Film Festival, where eight of his films have shown, and New York’s Museum of Modern Art, which presented a week-long run of some of his most recent work.
January 27-February 9 RESTRICTED (1999)
February 10-23 WORM (2001)
February 24-March 8 NINE LIVES (THE ETERNAL MOMENT OF NOW) (2001)
March 9-22 PRAYER (2002)
March 23-April 5 AFRAID SO (2006)
April 6-19 I LIKE IT A LOT (2004)