Masters of Dox

A Long Way From Home

Jay Rosenblatt
Screening time  
23.02. / Tuesday, 20:00 - 22:00 Theatre 2  
This elegiac vision of Jay Rosenblatt is a reflection on the final moments of Christ’s suffering.

The film, experimental both in form and content and following the found footage convention, asks questions about corporeality and evanescence inherent to every living creature. Above all, it expresses boundless despair, pain and longing for everything that irreversibly turns into nothingness. Referring to Bill Morrison’s Decasia, Rosenblatt’s film is farewell to cinema, which, due to the use of film stock, was the art practiced by alchemists for many decades.

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Jay Rosenblatt

Jay Rosenblatt is an internationally recognized artist who has been working as an independent filmmaker since 1980 and has completed over thirty films. His films have received over 100 awards and have screened throughout the world. His most recent films screened for a week at MoMA, and eight of his films have been screened at the Sundance Film Festival. Jay is a recipient of a Guggenheim, USA Artists and a Rockefeller Fellowship. He is a member of the Documentary Branch of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and served on the Executive Committee for 9 years. Jay is originally from New York and has lived in San Francisco for many years. For more than 20 years he was a film and video production instructor at various film schools, including Stanford University, S.F. State University, and the San Francisco Art Institute. He is currently the Program Director of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival. He has a Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology and, in a former life, worked as a therapist.

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A Long Way From Home

USA
2015, 3'

Directed by:
Jay Rosenblatt

Screenplay by:
Jay Rosenblatt

Cinematography:
John Turk, David Borengasser, Vanessa O'Neill

Edited by:
Jay Rosenblatt

Producer:
Jay Rosenblatt

Produced by:
Jay Rosenblatt

Festivals & Awards:

Visions du Réel 2015, San Francisco International Film Festival 2015, Kraków Film Festival 2015, Vila do Conde International Short Film Festival 2015, EDOC Film Festival 2015, Dokufest 2015, International Film Festival Message To Man 2015, Hamptons International Film Festival 2015, Minimalen Short Film Festival 2015