Jay Rosenblatt

Jay Rosenblatt

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Saying something personal by using fragments from other people is the biggest challenge Jay Rosenblatt’s film work managed to achieve. That “other meaning” that is supposed to lie in the genesis of found footage, and keeps it away from its original intentions, is transformed by Jay Rosenblatt into a sole inevitable meaning, which seems originally intended to accompany the texts and voices he adds. Varied in their length but always keeping an intimate atmosphere, most of his films are made of fragments that seem to have found the exact purpose for which they had been made. Whether they use an autobiographical tone (as in Phantom Limb), the first person (The Smell of Burning Ants), or homemade irony (Human Remains), his documentaries always focus on memory, a necessary but not always comforting exercise (his experience in psychology is subtly clear). And, as if it wasn’t enough, this allows the spectator to be a privileged witness of deep and very dark processes.

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