https://foundsf.org/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=PaulgrammFoundSF - User contributions [en]2026-05-06T16:11:07ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.45.3https://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Craig_Baldwin:_Experimental_Filmmaker&diff=24059Craig Baldwin: Experimental Filmmaker2015-05-13T14:56:40Z<p>Paulgramm: </p>
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<div>'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>'''<br />
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''by Paul Grammatico''<br />
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'''Experimental filmmaker Craig Baldwin talks film and video aesthetics.'''<br />
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''Video by Paul Grammatico''<br />
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''Videographer: Diallo McLinn''<br />
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'''Craig Baldwin''' was born in Oakland, California, began working in film in the mid-1970’s and subsequently did graduate work at San Francisco State’s film department in the 1980’s.<br />
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Around 1978, Baldwin had started curating film shows at the Offensive (21st and Valencia) under the moniker Film Offensive. He provided programming of experimental films under the titles of Anti-Films, Komotion Pictures, Sub Cinema, and Cinema Screen.<br />
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He settled into Artists’ Television Access in the 1980’s where he is still an artist-in-residence. He began programming experimental films under the name Eyes of Hell before changing it to Other Cinema, which continues on to this day. His found-footage collage aesthetic is found in his short films and documentaries.<br />
<br />
I first saw Craig’s work when I viewed ''Tribulation 99'' in Royal Oak, Michigan. This work reminds me of Orson Welles’ infamous broadcast of ''War of the Worlds'' on October 30, 1938. Although I wasn’t privy to the original broadcast, it felt that the events were actually happening. I felt the same with ''Tribulation'' even though it has been coined a “pseudo-pseudo” documentary. As far-fetched as some of the statements might have been in the film, Baldwin’s structure made me think, “Did this actually happen?” <br />
<br />
The first film in my documentary class at California College of Arts and Crafts (now California College of the Arts) was ''Sonic Outlaws''. Craig reflects on his own re-purposing by using Negativland as an archetype along with other “outlaws” that appropriate found media. This is, by far, one of my favorite documentaries as it shows different ways of seeing a documentary as Baldwin shatters the standard narrative structure and the visual structure by using found footage and various cameras (even a Fisher-Price PixelVision camera!) to show various images and textures throughout the film. The tagline, “Copyright Infringement is Your Best Entertainment Value” sums up this film perfectly.<br />
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In short, Baldwin’s films blow my mind. Enough said.<br />
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<font size=4>Filmography</font><br />
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''Wild Gunman'' (1978) - A comment about how the western genre permeates through advertisements, such as cigarette billboards and video games.<br />
<br />
''RocketKitKongoKit'' (1986) – A pseudo documentary using found footage from the 1960 revolution and independence in Zaire, the CIA, and a German munitions company in this darkly comic piece.<br />
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'''Clip from Tribulation 99''':<br />
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<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/tribulation99movieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
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'''Courtesy and by permission of Craig Baldwin'''<br />
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''Tribulation 99'' (1991) – Space aliens abound in this “pseudo-pseudo” documentary about UFOs, aliens, the government and their connections with these beings from another world.<br />
<br />
''O No Coronado!'' (1992) – With found and live footage, this film traces the steps of Coronado’s conquests of Mexico and the United States in his futile search of a lost city of gold.<br />
<br />
Baldwin used found footage in some of his documentaries and feature works:<br />
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'''Clip from Sonic Outlaws''':<br />
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'''Courtesy and by permission of Craig Baldwin'''<br />
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''Sonic Outlaws'' (1995) – A documentary featuring the group Negativland along with other video and audio artists in an exploration of the uses of media footage, copyright laws, and the right of repurpose.<br />
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''Spectres of the Spectrum'' (1999)- This film plunders Craig Baldwin's treasure trove of early television shows, industrial and educational films, Hollywood movies, advertisements and cartoons, combining these with live-action footage, no-budget special effects and relentless narration to generate a wholly original paranoid science-fiction epic.<br />
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''Mock Up on Mu'' (2008) - based on (mostly) true stories of California's post-War sub-cultures of rocket pioneers, alternative religions and Beat lifestyles. Pulp-serial snippets, industrial-film imagery, and B- (and Z-) fiction clips are intercut with newly shot live-action material, powering a playful, allegorical trajectory through the now-mythic occult matrix of Jack Parsons (founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory), L. Ron Hubbard (science fiction author turned cult-leader) and Marjorie Cameron (bohemian artist and "mother of the New Age movement"). Their intertwined tales spin out into a speculative farce on the militarization of space and the corporate take-over of spiritual fulfillment and leisure-time.<br />
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To view Craig Baldwin's entire interview, please click [https://archive.org/details/craigbaldwinexperimentalfilmmaker here]<br />
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[[category:Film]] [[category:Famous characters]] [[category:1970s]] [[category:1980s]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:2000s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:Public Art]]</div>Paulgrammhttps://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Jay_Rosenblatt,_Filmmaker&diff=24058Jay Rosenblatt, Filmmaker2015-05-13T14:54:16Z<p>Paulgramm: </p>
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<div>'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>'''<br />
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''by Paul Grammatico''<br />
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'''Jay Rosenblatt talks about his beginnings as a filmmaker.'''<br />
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''Video by Paul Grammatico, videography by Diallo McLinn'' <br />
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Jay Rosenblatt was born in New York City. He migrated to San Francisco and became a filmmaker in 1980. He has completed over 25 films. He has been a film and video production instructor since 1989 at various film schools in the Bay Area, including Stanford University, San Francisco State University, and the San Francisco Art Institute. He has a Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology and, in a former life, worked as a therapist. His work explores our emotional and psychological cores. The films are personal in their content yet universal in their appeal.<br />
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I first came across Rosenblatt’s films in an article on ''SF Gate'' which talked about the now defunct Fine Arts Theatre in Berkeley showing them. (The theatre was at the cross streets of Shattuck and Haste Street until June 30, 2002 when it closed and later was torn down. It is now a vegetarian restaurant.) I had never heard of Rosenblatt, as he was never discussed in my film classes at California College of the Arts. Intrigued, I decided to see his films and I was glad that I did as they had a profound effect on me. <br />
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'''Clip of ''Human Remains'' (1998)'''<br />
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''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt'' <br />
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His films such as ''Human Remains'' and ''I Just Wanted to Be Somebody'' are short documentaries that show a different side of known persona, including Hitler, Stalin, Franco, Mussolini, and Mao’s personal habits are described in ''Human Remains'' and Anita Bryant's vociferous anti-gay stance is taken on in ''I Just Wanted to be Somebody''. <br />
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'''Clip of ''King of the Jews'' (2000)'''<br />
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''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt''<br />
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In films such as ''Phantom Limb'', ''King of the Jews'', ''The Smell of Burning Ants'', and ''The Darkness of Day'', Rosenblatt opens up to us about family, childhood trauma, and loss. I feel a sense of sadness and empathy for some of the issues he addresses in his films. There is no doubt that there is a catharsis contained in the frames of his films as he (and we) try to make sense of these feelings that we have in the past and how we can learn from them moving forward.<br />
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'''Clip of ''Phantom Limb'' (2009)'''<br />
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''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt''<br />
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I have watched a few of Rosenblatt's interviews, but one stood out to me. The interviewer brings up that Rosenblatt was a therapist in the mental health field and how this was so different than being a filmmaker. Seeing his work, I find him to effectively incorporate his work as a therapist into his films to show that he can display his feelings...and we are allowed to feel right along with him.<br />
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Rosenblatt is a recipient of a Guggenheim, as well as USA Artists and a Rockefeller Fellowship. His films have received over 100 awards and have screened throughout the world. A selection had theatrical runs at the Film Forum in New York and at theaters around the country. Eight of his films have been at the Sundance Film Festival and several have shown on HBO/Cinemax, the Independent Film Channel and the Sundance Channel. Articles about his work have appeared in the Sunday ''New York Times'' "Arts & Leisure" section, the ''Los Angeles Times'', ''Filmmaker'' magazine, and the ''Village Voice''.<br />
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To see the complete interview of Jay Rosenblatt, click [https://archive.org/details/jayrosenblattfilmmaker here.]<br />
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[http://www.jayrosenblattfilms.com/ Get the complete films of Jay Rosenblatt.] <br />
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<font size=4>Filmography</font><br />
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''Doubt'' (11 min., USA, 1981)<br />
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''Blood Test'' (27 min., USA, 1985)<br />
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''Paris X 2'' (26 min., USA, 1988)<br />
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''Brain in the Desert'' (5 min., USA, 1990)<br />
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''Short Of Breath'' (10 min., USA, 1990)<br />
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''The Smell of Burning Ants'' (21 min., USA, 1994)<br />
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''Period Piece'' - Co-directed with Jennifer Frame (30 min., USA, 1996)<br />
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''Human Remains'' (30 min., USA, 1998)<br />
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''A Pregnant Moment'' (24 min., USA, 1999)<br />
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''Restricted" (1 min., USA, 1999)<br />
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''Drop'' (1 min., USA, 2000)<br />
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''King of the Jews'' (18 min., USA, 2000)<br />
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''Worm'' (2 min., USA, 2001)<br />
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''Nine Lives - The Eternal Moment of Now'' (1 min., USA, 2001)<br />
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''Prayer'' (3 min., USA, 2002)<br />
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''Decidi!'' (1 min., USA, 2002)<br />
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''Friend Good'' (5 min., USA, 2003)<br />
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''I Used to Be a Filmmaker'' (10 min., USA, 2003)<br />
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''I Like It a Lot'' (4 min., USA, 2004)<br />
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''I'm Charlie Chaplin'' (8 min., USA, 2005)<br />
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''Phantom Limb'' (28 min., USA, 2005)<br />
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''Afraid So'' (3 min., USA, 2006)<br />
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''I Just Wanted to Be Somebody'' (10 min., USA, 2006)<br />
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''Four Questions for a Rabbi'' (12 min., USA, 2008)<br />
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''Beginning Filmmaking'' (23 min., USA, 2008)<br />
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''The Darkness of Day'' (26 min., USA, 2009)<br />
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''The D Train'' (5 min., USA, 2011)<br />
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''Inquire Within'' (4 min., USA, 2012)<br />
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''The Claustrum'' (15 min., USA, 2014)<br />
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''A Long Way From Home'' (3 min., USA, 2015)<br />
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[[category:Film]] [[category:Famous characters]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:2000s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:Public Art]]</div>Paulgrammhttps://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Greta_Snider,_Experimental_Filmmaker&diff=24057Greta Snider, Experimental Filmmaker2015-05-13T05:52:55Z<p>Paulgramm: </p>
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<div>'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>'''<br />
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''by Paul Grammatico''<br />
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'''Experimental filmmaker Greta Snider talks about gender behind the camera.'''<br />
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''Video by Paul Grammatico''<br />
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'''Greta Snider''' is an experimental filmmaker. Her earlier work on 16mm includes a collection of audio and visual experiences that combines photography, found footage, and her own experiences of the San Francisco punk scene in the early 1990s. Her work includes experiments with simultaneous soundtracks (Blood Story, 1990), engaging personal accounts of a scraped-together journey with friends (Portland, 1996), and an audio travelogue of the San Francisco punk scene. Greta Snider's more recent work includes, in collaboration with Johunna Grayson, a series of slide show projections comprised of hand-processed photographs and stereoscopic images. The series is described as an update on the ‘campy Viewmaster format’, riffing on the concept of the travelogue to present the unseen and underground aspects. Subjects range from forgotten aspects of the everyday (“old man bars”, flowers, parts of the body) to the extreme (a Viewmaster series of atomic test blasts). Snider’s films explore the importance of small memories, retrieving pieces of ephemera from the underground and re-presenting them on screen.1 She is currently a tenured Professor at San Francisco State University. <br />
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<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/portlandflimclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
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'''Clip of ''Portland'' (1996)'''<br />
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'''Courtesy and permission of Greta Snider'''<br />
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<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/hardcorehomemovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
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'''Clip of ''Hard Core Home Movie'' (1989)'''<br />
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'''Courtesy and permission of Greta Snider'''<br />
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<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/ourgaybrothersfilmclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Our Gay Brothers'' (1993)'''<br />
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'''Courtesy and permission of Greta Snider'''<br />
<br />
I had the pleasure of having Greta Snider as a teacher at California College of Arts and Crafts (now simply California College of the Arts). She is a fantastic teacher and I was able to view works such as ''Portland'' and other works such as ''Hard Core Home Movie'' and ''Our Gay Brothers''<br />
<br />
Doing research on the films of Greta's, I found that she is the queen of all trades and mistress of all. I say this because her works touch on various aesthetics. From the gritty DIY films of ''Hard Core Home Movie'' and ''Portland'', to found footage collage in the films of ''Futility'' (1989) and ''Our Gay Brothers'', to documentaries such as ''Urine Man'' (2000), to a touching homage to her father in ''Flight'' (1997).<br />
<br />
<br />
In the interview, I asked Greta about gender behind the camera. She replied, "Can you tell if the person shooting or directing the film is male or female...I would say no." In the case of Greta Snider's work, I would say that this is a true statement as I believe that her work doesn't identify gender. Her work is honest, gritty, edgy, and visually stunning. It has no conditions or boundaries and that's as it should be.<br />
<br />
To view the complete interview, please click [https://archive.org/details/gretasniderexperimentalfilmmaker here]<br />
<br />
To know more about Greta Snider, please click [http://www.heatsignature.com/greta.html here] <br />
<br />
To view complete versions of her work, please click [https://vimeo.com/user12288191 here]<br />
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<font size=4>Filmography</font><br />
<br />
''The Magic of Radio'' (23 min., USA, 2001)<br />
<br />
''Urine Man'' (5 min., USA, 2000)<br />
<br />
''Quarry Movie'' (10 min., USA, 1999)<br />
<br />
''Flight'' (5 min., USA, 1997)<br />
<br />
''Portland'' (15 min., USA, 1996)<br />
<br />
''NoZone'' (18 min., USA 1993)<br />
<br />
''Our Gay Brothers'' (9 min., USA 1993)<br />
<br />
''Mute'' (15 min., USA 1991)<br />
<br />
''Blood Story'' (3 min., USA 1990)<br />
<br />
''Futility (10 min., USA 1989)<br />
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''Hard Core Home Movie'' (5 min., USA 1989)<br />
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1 Retrieved from http://cinema.sfsu.edu/people/faculty/greta-snider<br />
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[[category:film]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:1980s]] [[category:2000s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:famous characters]]</div>Paulgrammhttps://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Greta_Snider,_Experimental_Filmmaker&diff=24056Greta Snider, Experimental Filmmaker2015-05-13T05:51:10Z<p>Paulgramm: </p>
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<div>'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>'''<br />
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''by Paul Grammatico''<br />
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<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/gretasnidergenderbehindthecamera" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
<br />
'''Experimental filmmaker Greta Snider talks about gender behind the camera.'''<br />
<br />
''Video by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
'''Greta Snider''' is an experimental filmmaker. Her earlier work on 16mm includes a collection of audio and visual experiences that combines photography, found footage, and her own experiences of the San Francisco punk scene in the early 1990s. Her work includes experiments with simultaneous soundtracks (Blood Story, 1990), engaging personal accounts of a scraped-together journey with friends (Portland, 1996), and an audio travelogue of the San Francisco punk scene. Greta Snider's more recent work includes, in collaboration with Johunna Grayson, a series of slide show projections comprised of hand-processed photographs and stereoscopic images. The series is described as an update on the ‘campy Viewmaster format’, riffing on the concept of the travelogue to present the unseen and underground aspects. Subjects range from forgotten aspects of the everyday (“old man bars”, flowers, parts of the body) to the extreme (a Viewmaster series of atomic test blasts). Snider’s films explore the importance of small memories, retrieving pieces of ephemera from the underground and re-presenting them on screen.1 She is currently a tenured Professor at San Francisco State University. <br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/portlandflimclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Portland'' (1996)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
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<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/hardcorehomemovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Hard Core Home Movie'' (1989)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/ourgaybrothersfilmclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Our Gay Brothers'' (1993)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
I had the pleasure of having Greta Snider as a teacher at California College of Arts and Crafts (now simply California College of the Arts). She is a fantastic teacher and I was able to view works such as ''Portland'' and other works such as ''Hard Core Home Movie'' and ''Our Gay Brothers''<br />
<br />
Doing research on the films of Greta's, I found that she is the queen of all trades and mistress of all. I say this because her works touch on various aesthetics. From the gritty DIY films of ''Hard Core Home Movie'' and ''Portland'', to found footage collage in the films of ''Futility'' (1989) and ''Our Gay Brothers'', to documentaries such as ''Urine Man'' (2000), to a touching homage to her father in ''Flight'' (1997).<br />
<br />
<br />
In the interview, I asked Greta about gender behind the camera. She replied, "Can you tell if the person shooting or directing the film is male or female...I would say no." In the case of Greta Snider's work, I would say that this is a true statement as I believe that her work doesn't identify gender. Her work is honest, gritty, edgy, and visually stunning. It has no conditions or boundaries and that's as it should be.<br />
<br />
To view the complete interview, please click [https://archive.org/details/gretasniderexperimentalfilmmaker here]<br />
<br />
To know more about Greta Snider, please click [http://www.heatsignature.com/greta.html here] <br />
<br />
To view complete versions of her work, please click [https://vimeo.com/user12288191 here]<br />
<br />
<font size=4>Filmography</font><br />
<br />
''The Magic of Radio'' (23 min., USA, 2001)<br />
<br />
''Urine Man'' (5 min., USA, 2000)<br />
<br />
''Quarry Movie'' (10 min., USA, 1999)<br />
<br />
''Flight'' (5 min., USA, 1997)<br />
<br />
''Portland'' (15 min., USA, 1996)<br />
<br />
''NoZone'' (18 min., USA 1993)<br />
<br />
''Our Gay Brothers'' (9 min., USA 1993)<br />
<br />
''Mute'' (15 min., USA 1991)<br />
<br />
''Blood Story'' (3 min., USA 1990)<br />
<br />
''Futility (10 min., USA 1989)<br />
<br />
''Hard Core Home Movie'' (5 min., USA 1989)<br />
<br />
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1 Retrieved from http://cinema.sfsu.edu/people/faculty/greta-snider<br />
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[[category:film]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:1980s]] [[category:2000s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:famous characters]]</div>Paulgrammhttps://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Craig_Baldwin:_Experimental_Filmmaker&diff=24055Craig Baldwin: Experimental Filmmaker2015-05-13T05:50:09Z<p>Paulgramm: </p>
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<div>'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>'''<br />
<br />
''by Paul Grammatico''<br />
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<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/craigbaldwinfilmandvideoaesthetics" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Experimental filmmaker Craig Baldwin talks film and video aesthetics.'''<br />
<br />
''Video by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
''Videographer: Diallo McLinn''<br />
<br />
'''Craig Baldwin''' was born in Oakland, California, began working in film in the mid-1970’s and subsequently did graduate work at San Francisco State’s film department in the 1980’s.<br />
<br />
Around 1978, Baldwin had started curating film shows at the Offensive (21st and Valencia) under the moniker Film Offensive. He provided programming of experimental films under the titles of Anti-Films, Komotion Pictures, Sub Cinema, and Cinema Screen.<br />
<br />
He settled into Artists’ Television Access in the 1980’s where he is still an artist-in-residence. He began programming experimental films under the name Eyes of Hell before changing it to Other Cinema, which continues on to this day. His found-footage collage aesthetic is found in his short films and documentaries.<br />
<br />
I first saw Craig’s work when I viewed ''Tribulation 99'' in Royal Oak, Michigan. This work reminds me of Orson Welles’ infamous broadcast of ''War of the Worlds'' on October 30, 1938. Although I wasn’t privy to the original broadcast, it felt that the events were actually happening. I felt the same with ''Tribulation'' even though it has been coined a “pseudo-pseudo” documentary. As far-fetched as some of the statements might have been in the film, Baldwin’s structure made me think, “Did this actually happen?” <br />
<br />
The first film in my documentary class at California College of Arts and Crafts (now California College of the Arts) was ''Sonic Outlaws''. Craig reflects on his own re-purposing by using Negativland as an archetype along with other “outlaws” that appropriate found media. This is, by far, one of my favorite documentaries as it shows different ways of seeing a documentary as Baldwin shatters the standard narrative structure and the visual structure by using found footage and various cameras (even a Fisher-Price PixelVision camera!) to show various images and textures throughout the film. The tagline, “Copyright Infringement is Your Best Entertainment Value” sums up this film perfectly.<br />
<br />
In short, Baldwin’s films blow my mind. Enough said.<br />
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<font size=4>Filmography</font><br />
<br />
''Wild Gunman'' (1978) - A comment about how the western genre permeates through advertisements, such as cigarette billboards and video games.<br />
<br />
''RocketKitKongoKit'' (1986) – A pseudo documentary using found footage from the 1960 revolution and independence in Zaire, the CIA, and a German munitions company in this darkly comic piece.<br />
<br />
''Tribulation 99'' (1991) – Space aliens abound in this “pseudo-pseudo” documentary about UFOs, aliens, the government and their connections with these beings from another world.<br />
<br />
'''Clip from Tribulation 99''':<br />
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<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/tribulation99movieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
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'''Courtesy and by permission of Craig Baldwin'''<br />
<br />
''O No Coronado!'' (1992) – With found and live footage, this film traces the steps of Coronado’s conquests of Mexico and the United States in his futile search of a lost city of gold.<br />
<br />
Baldwin used found footage in some of his documentaries and feature works:<br />
<br />
''Sonic Outlaws'' (1995) – A documentary featuring the group Negativland along with other video and audio artists in an exploration of the uses of media footage, copyright laws, and the right of repurpose.<br />
<br />
'''Clip from Sonic Outlaws''':<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/sonicoutlawsmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Courtesy and by permission of Craig Baldwin'''<br />
<br />
''Spectres of the Spectrum'' (1999)- This film plunders Craig Baldwin's treasure trove of early television shows, industrial and educational films, Hollywood movies, advertisements and cartoons, combining these with live-action footage, no-budget special effects and relentless narration to generate a wholly original paranoid science-fiction epic.<br />
<br />
''Mock Up on Mu'' (2008) - based on (mostly) true stories of California's post-War sub-cultures of rocket pioneers, alternative religions and Beat lifestyles. Pulp-serial snippets, industrial-film imagery, and B- (and Z-) fiction clips are intercut with newly shot live-action material, powering a playful, allegorical trajectory through the now-mythic occult matrix of Jack Parsons (founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory), L. Ron Hubbard (science fiction author turned cult-leader) and Marjorie Cameron (bohemian artist and "mother of the New Age movement"). Their intertwined tales spin out into a speculative farce on the militarization of space and the corporate take-over of spiritual fulfillment and leisure-time.<br />
<br />
To view Craig Baldwin's entire interview, please click [https://archive.org/details/craigbaldwinexperimentalfilmmaker here]<br />
<br />
<br />
[[category:Film]] [[category:Famous characters]] [[category:1970s]] [[category:1980s]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:2000s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:Public Art]]</div>Paulgrammhttps://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Craig_Baldwin:_Experimental_Filmmaker&diff=24054Craig Baldwin: Experimental Filmmaker2015-05-13T05:49:10Z<p>Paulgramm: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>'''<br />
<br />
''by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/craigbaldwinfilmandvideoaesthetics" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Experimental filmmaker Craig Baldwin talks film and video aesthetics.'''<br />
<br />
''Video by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
''Videographer: Diallo McLinn''<br />
<br />
'''Craig Baldwin''' was born in Oakland, California, began working in film in the mid-1970’s and subsequently did graduate work at San Francisco State’s film department in the 1980’s.<br />
<br />
Around 1978, Baldwin had started curating film shows at the Offensive (21st and Valencia) under the moniker Film Offensive. He provided programming of experimental films under the titles of Anti-Films, Komotion Pictures, Sub Cinema, and Cinema Screen.<br />
<br />
He settled into Artists’ Television Access in the 1980’s where he is still an artist-in-residence. He began programming experimental films under the name Eyes of Hell before changing it to Other Cinema, which continues on to this day. His found-footage collage aesthetic is found in his short films and documentaries.<br />
<br />
I first saw Craig’s work when I viewed ''Tribulation 99'' in Royal Oak, Michigan. This work reminds me of Orson Welles’ infamous broadcast of ''War of the Worlds'' on October 30, 1938. Although I wasn’t privy to the original broadcast, it felt that the events were actually happening. I felt the same with ''Tribulation'' even though it has been coined a “pseudo-pseudo” documentary. As far-fetched as some of the statements might have been in the film, Baldwin’s structure made me think, “Did this actually happen?” <br />
<br />
The first film in my documentary class at California College of Arts and Crafts (now California College of the Arts) was ''Sonic Outlaws''. Craig reflects on his own re-purposing by using Negativland as an archetype along with other “outlaws” that appropriate found media. This is, by far, one of my favorite documentaries as it shows different ways of seeing a documentary as Baldwin shatters the standard narrative structure and the visual structure by using found footage and various cameras (even a Fisher-Price PixelVision camera!) to show various images and textures throughout the film. The tagline, “Copyright Infringement is Your Best Entertainment Value” sums up this film perfectly.<br />
<br />
In short, Baldwin’s films blow my mind. Enough said.<br />
<br />
<br />
<font size=4>Filmography</font><br />
<br />
''Wild Gunman'' (1978) - A comment about how the western genre permeates through advertisements, such as cigarette billboards and video games.<br />
<br />
''RocketKitKongoKit'' (1986) – A pseudo documentary using found footage from the 1960 revolution and independence in Zaire, the CIA, and a German munitions company in this darkly comic piece.<br />
<br />
''Tribulation 99'' (1991) – Space aliens abound in this “pseudo-pseudo” documentary about UFOs, aliens, the government and their connections with these beings from another world.<br />
<br />
Clip from ''Tribulation 99'':<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/tribulation99movieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Courtesy and by permission of Craig Baldwin'''<br />
<br />
''O No Coronado!'' (1992) – With found and live footage, this film traces the steps of Coronado’s conquests of Mexico and the United States in his futile search of a lost city of gold.<br />
<br />
Baldwin used found footage in some of his documentaries and feature works:<br />
<br />
''Sonic Outlaws'' (1995) – A documentary featuring the group Negativland along with other video and audio artists in an exploration of the uses of media footage, copyright laws, and the right of repurpose.<br />
<br />
Clip from ''Sonic Outlaws'':<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/sonicoutlawsmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Courtesy and by permission of Craig Baldwin'''<br />
<br />
''Spectres of the Spectrum'' (1999)- This film plunders Craig Baldwin's treasure trove of early television shows, industrial and educational films, Hollywood movies, advertisements and cartoons, combining these with live-action footage, no-budget special effects and relentless narration to generate a wholly original paranoid science-fiction epic.<br />
<br />
''Mock Up on Mu'' (2008) - based on (mostly) true stories of California's post-War sub-cultures of rocket pioneers, alternative religions and Beat lifestyles. Pulp-serial snippets, industrial-film imagery, and B- (and Z-) fiction clips are intercut with newly shot live-action material, powering a playful, allegorical trajectory through the now-mythic occult matrix of Jack Parsons (founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory), L. Ron Hubbard (science fiction author turned cult-leader) and Marjorie Cameron (bohemian artist and "mother of the New Age movement"). Their intertwined tales spin out into a speculative farce on the militarization of space and the corporate take-over of spiritual fulfillment and leisure-time.<br />
<br />
To view Craig Baldwin's entire interview, please click [https://archive.org/details/craigbaldwinexperimentalfilmmaker here]<br />
<br />
<br />
[[category:Film]] [[category:Famous characters]] [[category:1970s]] [[category:1980s]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:2000s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:Public Art]]</div>Paulgrammhttps://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Craig_Baldwin:_Experimental_Filmmaker&diff=24053Craig Baldwin: Experimental Filmmaker2015-05-13T05:46:46Z<p>Paulgramm: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>'''<br />
<br />
''by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/craigbaldwinfilmandvideoaesthetics" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Experimental filmmaker Craig Baldwin talks film and video aesthetics.'''<br />
<br />
''Video by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
''Videographer: Diallo McLinn''<br />
<br />
'''Craig Baldwin''' was born in Oakland, California, began working in film in the mid-1970’s and subsequently did graduate work at San Francisco State’s film department in the 1980’s.<br />
<br />
Around 1978, Baldwin had started curating film shows at the Offensive (21st and Valencia) under the moniker Film Offensive. He provided programming of experimental films under the titles of Anti-Films, Komotion Pictures, Sub Cinema, and Cinema Screen.<br />
<br />
He settled into Artists’ Television Access in the 1980’s where he is still an artist-in-residence. He began programming experimental films under the name Eyes of Hell before changing it to Other Cinema, which continues on to this day. His found-footage collage aesthetic is found in his short films and documentaries.<br />
<br />
I first saw Craig’s work when I viewed ''Tribulation 99'' in Royal Oak, Michigan. This work reminds me of Orson Welles’ infamous broadcast of ''War of the Worlds'' on October 30, 1938. Although I wasn’t privy to the original broadcast, it felt that the events were actually happening. I felt the same with ''Tribulation'' even though it has been coined a “pseudo-pseudo” documentary. As far-fetched as some of the statements might have been in the film, Baldwin’s structure made me think, “Did this actually happen?” <br />
<br />
The first film in my documentary class at California College of Arts and Crafts (now California College of the Arts) was ''Sonic Outlaws''. Craig reflects on his own re-purposing by using Negativland as an archetype along with other “outlaws” that appropriate found media. This is, by far, one of my favorite documentaries as it shows different ways of seeing a documentary as Baldwin shatters the standard narrative structure and the visual structure by using found footage and various cameras (even a Fisher-Price PixelVision camera!) to show various images and textures throughout the film. The tagline, “Copyright Infringement is Your Best Entertainment Value” sums up this film perfectly.<br />
<br />
In short, Baldwin’s films blow my mind. Enough said.<br />
<br />
<br />
<font size=4>Filmography</font><br />
<br />
''Wild Gunman'' (1978), a comment about how the western genre permeates through advertisements, such as cigarette billboards and video games.<br />
<br />
''RocketKitKongoKit'' (1986) – A pseudo documentary using found footage from the 1960 revolution and independence in Zaire, the CIA, and a German munitions company in this darkly comic piece.<br />
<br />
''Tribulation 99'' (1991)– Space aliens abound in this “pseudo-pseudo” documentary about UFOs, aliens, the government and their connections with these beings from another world.<br />
<br />
Clip from ''Tribulation 99'':<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/tribulation99movieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
''O No Coronado!'' (1992) – With found and live footage, this film traces the steps of Coronado’s conquests of Mexico and the United States in his futile search of a lost city of gold.<br />
<br />
Baldwin used found footage in some of his documentaries and feature works:<br />
<br />
''Sonic Outlaws'' (1995) – A documentary featuring the group Negativland along with other video and audio artists in an exploration of the uses of media footage, copyright laws, and the right of repurpose.<br />
<br />
Clip from ''Sonic Outlaws'':<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/sonicoutlawsmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
''Spectres of the Spectrum'' (1999)- This film plunders Craig Baldwin's treasure trove of early television shows, industrial and educational films, Hollywood movies, advertisements and cartoons, combining these with live-action footage, no-budget special effects and relentless narration to generate a wholly original paranoid science-fiction epic.<br />
<br />
''Mock Up on Mu'' (2008) - based on (mostly) true stories of California's post-War sub-cultures of rocket pioneers, alternative religions and Beat lifestyles. Pulp-serial snippets, industrial-film imagery, and B- (and Z-) fiction clips are intercut with newly shot live-action material, powering a playful, allegorical trajectory through the now-mythic occult matrix of Jack Parsons (founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory), L. Ron Hubbard (science fiction author turned cult-leader) and Marjorie Cameron (bohemian artist and "mother of the New Age movement"). Their intertwined tales spin out into a speculative farce on the militarization of space and the corporate take-over of spiritual fulfillment and leisure-time.<br />
<br />
To view Craig Baldwin's entire interview, please click [https://archive.org/details/craigbaldwinexperimentalfilmmaker here]<br />
<br />
<br />
[[category:Film]] [[category:Famous characters]] [[category:1970s]] [[category:1980s]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:2000s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:Public Art]]</div>Paulgrammhttps://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Craig_Baldwin:_Experimental_Filmmaker&diff=24052Craig Baldwin: Experimental Filmmaker2015-05-13T05:45:48Z<p>Paulgramm: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>'''<br />
<br />
''by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/craigbaldwinfilmandvideoaesthetics" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Experimental filmmaker Craig Baldwin talks film and video aesthetics.'''<br />
<br />
''Video by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
''Videographer: Diallo McLinn''<br />
<br />
'''Craig Baldwin''' was born in Oakland, California, began working in film in the mid-1970’s and subsequently did graduate work at San Francisco State’s film department in the 1980’s.<br />
<br />
Around 1978, Baldwin had started curating film shows at the Offensive (21st and Valencia) under the moniker Film Offensive. He provided programming of experimental films under the titles of Anti-Films, Komotion Pictures, Sub Cinema, and Cinema Screen.<br />
<br />
He settled into Artists’ Television Access in the 1980’s where he is still an artist-in-residence. He began programming experimental films under the name Eyes of Hell before changing it to Other Cinema, which continues on to this day. His found-footage collage aesthetic is found in his short films and documentaries.<br />
<br />
I first saw Craig’s work when I viewed ''Tribulation 99'' in Royal Oak, Michigan. This work reminds me of Orson Welles’ infamous broadcast of ''War of the Worlds'' on October 30, 1938. Although I wasn’t privy to the original broadcast, it felt that the events were actually happening. I felt the same with ''Tribulation'' even though it has been coined a “pseudo-pseudo” documentary. As far-fetched as some of the statements might have been in the film, Baldwin’s structure made me think, “Did this actually happen?” <br />
<br />
The first film in my documentary class at California College of Arts and Crafts (now California College of the Arts) was ''Sonic Outlaws''. Craig reflects on his own re-purposing by using Negativland as an archetype along with other “outlaws” that appropriate found media. This is, by far, one of my favorite documentaries as it shows different ways of seeing a documentary as Baldwin shatters the standard narrative structure and the visual structure by using found footage and various cameras (even a Fisher-Price PixelVision camera!) to show various images and textures throughout the film. The tagline, “Copyright Infringement is Your Best Entertainment Value” sums up this film perfectly.<br />
<br />
In short, Baldwin’s films blow my mind. Enough said.<br />
<br />
<br />
<font size=4>Filmography</font><br />
<br />
''Wild Gunman'' (1978), a comment about how the western genre permeates through advertisements, such as cigarette billboards and video games.<br />
<br />
''RocketKitKongoKit'' (1986) – A pseudo documentary using found footage from the 1960 revolution and independence in Zaire, the CIA, and a German munitions company in this darkly comic piece.<br />
<br />
''Tribulation 99'' (1991)– Space aliens abound in this “pseudo-pseudo” documentary about UFOs, aliens, the government and their connections with these beings from another world.<br />
<br />
Clip from ''Tribulation 99'':<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/tribulation99movieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
''O No Coronado!'' (1992) – With found and live footage, this film traces the steps of Coronado’s conquests of Mexico and the United States in his futile search of a lost city of gold.<br />
<br />
Baldwin used found footage in some of his documentaries and feature works:<br />
<br />
''Sonic Outlaws'' (1995) – A documentary featuring the group Negativland along with other video and audio artists in an exploration of the uses of media footage, copyright laws, and the right of repurpose.<br />
<br />
Clip from ''Sonic Outlaws'':<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/sonicoutlawsmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
''Spectres of the Spectrum'' (1999)- This film plunders Craig Baldwin's treasure trove of early television shows, industrial and educational films, Hollywood movies, advertisements and cartoons, combining these with live-action footage, no-budget special effects and relentless narration to generate a wholly original paranoid science-fiction epic.<br />
<br />
''Mock Up on Mu'' (2008) - based on (mostly) true stories of California's post-War sub-cultures of rocket pioneers, alternative religions and Beat lifestyles. Pulp-serial snippets, industrial-film imagery, and B- (and Z-) fiction clips are intercut with newly shot live-action material, powering a playful, allegorical trajectory through the now-mythic occult matrix of Jack Parsons (founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory), L. Ron Hubbard (science fiction author turned cult-leader) and Marjorie Cameron (bohemian artist and "mother of the New Age movement"). Their intertwined tales spin out into a speculative farce on the militarization of space and the corporate take-over of spiritual fulfillment and leisure-time.<br />
<br />
To view Craig Baldwin's entire interview, please click [https://archive.org/details/craigbaldwinexperimentalfilmmaker here]<br />
<br />
<br />
[[category:Film]] [[category:Famous characters]] [category:1970s]] [[category:1980s]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:2000s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:Public Art]]</div>Paulgrammhttps://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Craig_Baldwin:_Experimental_Filmmaker&diff=24051Craig Baldwin: Experimental Filmmaker2015-05-13T05:44:37Z<p>Paulgramm: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>'''<br />
<br />
''by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/craigbaldwinfilmandvideoaesthetics" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Experimental filmmaker Craig Baldwin talks film and video aesthetics.'''<br />
<br />
''Video by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
''Videographer: Diallo McLinn''<br />
<br />
'''Craig Baldwin''' was born in Oakland, California, began working in film in the mid-1970’s and subsequently did graduate work at San Francisco State’s film department in the 1980’s.<br />
<br />
Around 1978, Baldwin had started curating film shows at the Offensive (21st and Valencia) under the moniker Film Offensive. He provided programming of experimental films under the titles of Anti-Films, Komotion Pictures, Sub Cinema, and Cinema Screen.<br />
<br />
He settled into Artists’ Television Access in the 1980’s where he is still an artist-in-residence. He began programming experimental films under the name Eyes of Hell before changing it to Other Cinema, which continues on to this day. His found-footage collage aesthetic is found in his short films and documentaries.<br />
<br />
I first saw Craig’s work when I viewed ''Tribulation 99'' in Royal Oak, Michigan. This work reminds me of Orson Welles’ infamous broadcast of ''War of the Worlds'' on October 30, 1938. Although I wasn’t privy to the original broadcast, it felt that the events were actually happening. I felt the same with ''Tribulation'' even though it has been coined a “pseudo-pseudo” documentary. As far-fetched as some of the statements might have been in the film, Baldwin’s structure made me think, “Did this actually happen?” <br />
<br />
The first film in my documentary class at California College of Arts and Crafts (now California College of the Arts) was ''Sonic Outlaws''. Craig reflects on his own re-purposing by using Negativland as an archetype along with other “outlaws” that appropriate found media. This is, by far, one of my favorite documentaries as it shows different ways of seeing a documentary as Baldwin shatters the standard narrative structure and the visual structure by using found footage and various cameras (even a Fisher-Price PixelVision camera!) to show various images and textures throughout the film. The tagline, “Copyright Infringement is Your Best Entertainment Value” sums up this film perfectly.<br />
<br />
In short, Baldwin’s films blow my mind. Enough said.<br />
<br />
<br />
<font size=4>Filmography</font><br />
<br />
''Wild Gunman'' (1978), a comment about how the western genre permeates through advertisements, such as cigarette billboards and video games.<br />
<br />
''RocketKitKongoKit'' (1986) – A pseudo documentary using found footage from the 1960 revolution and independence in Zaire, the CIA, and a German munitions company in this darkly comic piece.<br />
<br />
''Tribulation 99'' (1991)– Space aliens abound in this “pseudo-pseudo” documentary about UFOs, aliens, the government and their connections with these beings from another world.<br />
<br />
Clip from ''Tribulation 99'':<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/tribulation99movieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
''O No Coronado!'' (1992) – With found and live footage, this film traces the steps of Coronado’s conquests of Mexico and the United States in his futile search of a lost city of gold.<br />
<br />
Baldwin used found footage in some of his documentaries and feature works:<br />
<br />
''Sonic Outlaws'' (1995) – A documentary featuring the group Negativland along with other video and audio artists in an exploration of the uses of media footage, copyright laws, and the right of repurpose.<br />
<br />
Clip from ''Sonic Outlaws'':<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/sonicoutlawsmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
''Spectres of the Spectrum'' (1999)- This film plunders Craig Baldwin's treasure trove of early television shows, industrial and educational films, Hollywood movies, advertisements and cartoons, combining these with live-action footage, no-budget special effects and relentless narration to generate a wholly original paranoid science-fiction epic.<br />
<br />
''Mock Up on Mu'' (2008) - based on (mostly) true stories of California's post-War sub-cultures of rocket pioneers, alternative religions and Beat lifestyles. Pulp-serial snippets, industrial-film imagery, and B- (and Z-) fiction clips are intercut with newly shot live-action material, powering a playful, allegorical trajectory through the now-mythic occult matrix of Jack Parsons (founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory), L. Ron Hubbard (science fiction author turned cult-leader) and Marjorie Cameron (bohemian artist and "mother of the New Age movement"). Their intertwined tales spin out into a speculative farce on the militarization of space and the corporate take-over of spiritual fulfillment and leisure-time.<br />
<br />
To view Craig Baldwin's entire interview, please click [https://archive.org/details/craigbaldwinexperimentalfilmmaker here]<br />
<br />
[[category:Film]] [[category:Famous characters]] [category:1970s]] [[category:1980s]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:2000s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:Public Art]]</div>Paulgrammhttps://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Craig_Baldwin:_Experimental_Filmmaker&diff=24050Craig Baldwin: Experimental Filmmaker2015-05-13T05:44:01Z<p>Paulgramm: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>'''<br />
<br />
''by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/craigbaldwinfilmandvideoaesthetics" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
''Experimental filmmaker Craig Baldwin talks film and video aesthetics.''<br />
<br />
''Video by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
''Videographer: Diallo McLinn''<br />
<br />
'''Craig Baldwin''' was born in Oakland, California, began working in film in the mid-1970’s and subsequently did graduate work at San Francisco State’s film department in the 1980’s.<br />
<br />
Around 1978, Baldwin had started curating film shows at the Offensive (21st and Valencia) under the moniker Film Offensive. He provided programming of experimental films under the titles of Anti-Films, Komotion Pictures, Sub Cinema, and Cinema Screen.<br />
<br />
He settled into Artists’ Television Access in the 1980’s where he is still an artist-in-residence. He began programming experimental films under the name Eyes of Hell before changing it to Other Cinema, which continues on to this day. His found-footage collage aesthetic is found in his short films and documentaries.<br />
<br />
I first saw Craig’s work when I viewed ''Tribulation 99'' in Royal Oak, Michigan. This work reminds me of Orson Welles’ infamous broadcast of ''War of the Worlds'' on October 30, 1938. Although I wasn’t privy to the original broadcast, it felt that the events were actually happening. I felt the same with ''Tribulation'' even though it has been coined a “pseudo-pseudo” documentary. As far-fetched as some of the statements might have been in the film, Baldwin’s structure made me think, “Did this actually happen?” <br />
<br />
The first film in my documentary class at California College of Arts and Crafts (now California College of the Arts) was ''Sonic Outlaws''. Craig reflects on his own re-purposing by using Negativland as an archetype along with other “outlaws” that appropriate found media. This is, by far, one of my favorite documentaries as it shows different ways of seeing a documentary as Baldwin shatters the standard narrative structure and the visual structure by using found footage and various cameras (even a Fisher-Price PixelVision camera!) to show various images and textures throughout the film. The tagline, “Copyright Infringement is Your Best Entertainment Value” sums up this film perfectly.<br />
<br />
In short, Baldwin’s films blow my mind. Enough said.<br />
<br />
<br />
<font size=4>Filmography</font><br />
<br />
''Wild Gunman'' (1978), a comment about how the western genre permeates through advertisements, such as cigarette billboards and video games.<br />
<br />
''RocketKitKongoKit'' (1986) – A pseudo documentary using found footage from the 1960 revolution and independence in Zaire, the CIA, and a German munitions company in this darkly comic piece.<br />
<br />
''Tribulation 99'' (1991)– Space aliens abound in this “pseudo-pseudo” documentary about UFOs, aliens, the government and their connections with these beings from another world.<br />
<br />
Clip from ''Tribulation 99'':<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/tribulation99movieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
''O No Coronado!'' (1992) – With found and live footage, this film traces the steps of Coronado’s conquests of Mexico and the United States in his futile search of a lost city of gold.<br />
<br />
Baldwin used found footage in some of his documentaries and feature works:<br />
<br />
''Sonic Outlaws'' (1995) – A documentary featuring the group Negativland along with other video and audio artists in an exploration of the uses of media footage, copyright laws, and the right of repurpose.<br />
<br />
Clip from ''Sonic Outlaws'':<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/sonicoutlawsmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
''Spectres of the Spectrum'' (1999)- This film plunders Craig Baldwin's treasure trove of early television shows, industrial and educational films, Hollywood movies, advertisements and cartoons, combining these with live-action footage, no-budget special effects and relentless narration to generate a wholly original paranoid science-fiction epic.<br />
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''Mock Up on Mu'' (2008) - based on (mostly) true stories of California's post-War sub-cultures of rocket pioneers, alternative religions and Beat lifestyles. Pulp-serial snippets, industrial-film imagery, and B- (and Z-) fiction clips are intercut with newly shot live-action material, powering a playful, allegorical trajectory through the now-mythic occult matrix of Jack Parsons (founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory), L. Ron Hubbard (science fiction author turned cult-leader) and Marjorie Cameron (bohemian artist and "mother of the New Age movement"). Their intertwined tales spin out into a speculative farce on the militarization of space and the corporate take-over of spiritual fulfillment and leisure-time.<br />
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To view Craig Baldwin's entire interview, please click [https://archive.org/details/craigbaldwinexperimentalfilmmaker here]<br />
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[[category:Film]] [[category:Famous characters]] [category:1970s]] [[category:1980s]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:2000s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:Public Art]]</div>Paulgrammhttps://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Artists%27_Television_Access&diff=24049Artists' Television Access2015-05-13T05:42:33Z<p>Paulgramm: </p>
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'''Filmmaker Craig Baldwin talks about the future of ATA.'''<br />
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''Video by Paul Grammatico''<br />
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''Videographer: Diallo McLinn''<br />
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[[Image:ATAsign.JPG|720px]]<br />
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''Photo: Paul Grammatico''<br />
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Artists’ Television Access (ATA) was founded in 1984 by artist John Martin and Marshall Weber. Originally a quirky art warehouse space called the Weber/Marshall Gallery located on 8th Street in the SOMA district. Due to a fire in 1986, the gallery moved to 992 Valencia Street in San Francisco in the Mission District and was renamed the Artists’ Television Access. It has shown underground movies, videos, and performance art in its fifty-seat (approximately) venue.<br />
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[[Image:ATAinside.JPG|720px]]<br />
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''Photo: Paul Grammatico''<br />
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It has shown various experimental works by such artists as Craig Baldwin, who is one of the early artists at ATA and currently is the artist-in-residence. His Other Cinema showcase has shown different formats of film from a Super-8 film festival, documentaries, and many other films that, as Craig Baldwin states, “Have fallen through the cracks which deserves an audience.” This eclectic mix of different works deemed too radical or experimental for mainstream audiences. The also have a small art gallery that features artwork from local artists:<br />
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[[Image:VasesandHallucinations.jpg|720px]]<br />
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'''Rebeca Bollinger: Vases and Hallucinations'''<br />
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''Photo courtesy of Artists’ Television Access''<br />
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[[Image:Ezramural.JPG|720px]]<br />
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'''Mural by Ezra Eismont'''<br />
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''Photo: Paul Grammatico''<br />
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With their low-cost media classes, art gallery, performance art along with their shows during the week such as open screenings, The Noise Pop series, and Periwinkle Cinema, ATA is a huge fixture in the Mission District and the San Francisco Art Community. ATA has been an alternative venue for emerging artists, experimental film & video, and culturally responsible and community based artwork. Artistic Director Daniel “Dewey” Scott states, “ATA often comes across as a community within a community. "We try and create an environment that creates community.”<br />
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To view Craig Baldwin's interview about ATA, please click [https://archive.org/details/artiststelevisionaccess here]<br />
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[[category:Mission]] [[category:Film]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:2000s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:Dissent]]</div>Paulgrammhttps://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Artists%27_Television_Access&diff=24048Artists' Television Access2015-05-13T05:41:46Z<p>Paulgramm: </p>
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<div><iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/craigbaldwinfutureofata" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Filmmaker Craig Baldwin talks about the future of ATA.'''<br />
<br />
''Video by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
''Videographer: Diallo McLinn''<br />
<br />
[[Image:ATAsign.JPG|720px]]<br />
<br />
''Photo: Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
Artists’ Television Access (ATA) was founded in 1984 by artist John Martin and Marshall Weber. Originally a quirky art warehouse space called the Weber/Marshall Gallery located on 8th Street in the SOMA district. Due to a fire in 1986, the gallery moved to 992 Valencia Street in San Francisco in the Mission District and was renamed the Artists’ Television Access. It has shown underground movies, videos, and performance art in its fifty-seat (approximately) venue.<br />
<br />
[[Image:ATAinside.JPG|720px]]<br />
<br />
''Photo: Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
It has shown various experimental works by such artists as Craig Baldwin, who is one of the early artists at ATA and currently is the artist-in-residence. His Other Cinema showcase has shown different formats of film from a Super-8 film festival, documentaries, and many other films that, as Craig Baldwin states, “Have fallen through the cracks which deserves an audience.” This eclectic mix of different works deemed too radical or experimental for mainstream audiences. The also have a small art gallery that features artwork from local artists:<br />
<br />
[[Image:VasesandHallucinations.jpg|720px]]<br />
<br />
'''Rebeca Bollinger: Vases and Hallucinations'''<br />
<br />
''Photo courtesy of Artists’ Television Access''<br />
<br />
[[Image:Ezramural.JPG|720px]]<br />
<br />
'''Mural by Ezra Eismont'''<br />
<br />
''Photo: Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
With their low-cost media classes, art gallery, performance art along with their shows during the week such as open screenings, The Noise Pop series, and Periwinkle Cinema, ATA is a huge fixture in the Mission District and the San Francisco Art Community. ATA has been an alternative venue for emerging artists, experimental film & video, and culturally responsible and community based artwork. Artistic Director Daniel “Dewey” Scott states, “ATA often comes across as a community within a community. "We try and create an environment that creates community.”<br />
<br />
To view Craig Baldwin's interview about ATA, please click {https://archive.org/details/artiststelevisionaccess here]<br />
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[[category:Mission]] [[category:Film]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:2000s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:Dissent]]</div>Paulgrammhttps://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Jay_Rosenblatt,_Filmmaker&diff=24047Jay Rosenblatt, Filmmaker2015-05-13T05:40:13Z<p>Paulgramm: </p>
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<div>'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>'''<br />
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''by Paul Grammatico''<br />
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'''Jay Rosenblatt talks about his beginnings as a filmmaker.'''<br />
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''Video by Paul Grammatico, videography by Diallo McLinn'' <br />
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Jay Rosenblatt was born in New York City. He migrated to San Francisco and became a filmmaker in 1980. He has completed over 25 films. He has been a film and video production instructor since 1989 at various film schools in the Bay Area, including Stanford University, San Francisco State University, and the San Francisco Art Institute. He has a Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology and, in a former life, worked as a therapist. His work explores our emotional and psychological cores. The films are personal in their content yet universal in their appeal.<br />
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I first came across Rosenblatt’s films in an article on ''SF Gate'' which talked about the now defunct Fine Arts Theatre in Berkeley showing them. (The theatre was at the cross streets of Shattuck and Haste Street until June 30, 2002 when it closed and later was torn down. It is now a vegetarian restaurant.) I had never heard of Rosenblatt, as he was never discussed in my film classes at California College of the Arts. Intrigued, I decided to see his films and I was glad that I did as they had a profound effect on me. <br />
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'''Clip of ''Human Remains'' (1998)'''<br />
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''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt'' <br />
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His films such as ''Human Remains'' and ''I Just Wanted to Be Somebody'' are short documentaries that show a different side of known persona, including Hitler, Stalin, Franco, Mussolini, and Mao’s personal habits are described in ''Human Remains'' and Anita Bryant's vociferous anti-gay stance is taken on in ''I Just Wanted to be Somebody''. <br />
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'''Clip of ''King of the Jews'' (2000)'''<br />
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''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt''<br />
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In films such as ''Phantom Limb'', ''King of the Jews'', ''The Smell of Burning Ants'', and ''The Darkness of Day'', Rosenblatt opens up to us about family, childhood trauma, and loss. I feel a sense of sadness and empathy for some of the issues he addresses in his films. There is no doubt that there is a catharsis contained in the frames of his films as he (and we) try to make sense of these feelings that we have in the past and how we can learn from them moving forward.<br />
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'''Clip of ''Phantom Limb'' (2009)'''<br />
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''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt''<br />
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I have watched a few of Rosenblatt's interviews, but one stood out to me. The interviewer brings up that Rosenblatt was a therapist in the mental health field and how this was so different than being a filmmaker. Seeing his work, I find him to effectively incorporate his work as a therapist into his films to show that he can display his feelings...and we are allowed to feel right along with him.<br />
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Rosenblatt is a recipient of a Guggenheim, as well as USA Artists and a Rockefeller Fellowship. His films have received over 100 awards and have screened throughout the world. A selection had theatrical runs at the Film Forum in New York and at theaters around the country. Eight of his films have been at the Sundance Film Festival and several have shown on HBO/Cinemax, the Independent Film Channel and the Sundance Channel. Articles about his work have appeared in the Sunday ''New York Times'' "Arts & Leisure" section, the ''Los Angeles Times'', ''Filmmaker'' magazine, and the ''Village Voice''.<br />
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To see the complete interview of Jay Rosenblatt, click [https://archive.org/details/jayrosenblattfilmmaker here.]<br />
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[http://www.jayrosenblattfilms.com/ Get the complete films of Jay Rosenblatt.] <br />
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<font size=4>Filmography</font><br />
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''Doubt'' (11 min., USA, 1981)<br />
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''Blood Test'' (27 min., USA, 1985)<br />
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''Paris X 2'' (26 min., USA, 1988)<br />
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''Brain in the Desert'' (5 min., USA, 1990)<br />
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''Short Of Breath'' (10 min., USA, 1990)<br />
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''The Smell of Burning Ants'' (21 min., USA, 1994)<br />
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''Period Piece'' - Co-directed with Jennifer Frame (30 min., USA, 1996)<br />
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''Human Remains'' (30 min., USA, 1998)<br />
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''A Pregnant Moment'' (24 min., USA, 1999)<br />
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''Restricted" (1 min., USA, 1999)<br />
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''Drop'' (1 min., USA, 2000)<br />
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''King of the Jews'' (18 min., USA, 2000)<br />
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''Worm'' (2 min., USA, 2001)<br />
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''Nine Lives - The Eternal Moment of Now'' (1 min., USA, 2001)<br />
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''Prayer'' (3 min., USA, 2002)<br />
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''Decidi'' (1 min., USA, 2002)<br />
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''Friend Good'' (5 min., USA, 2003)<br />
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''I Used to Be a Filmmaker'' (10 min., USA, 2003)<br />
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''I Like It a Lot'' (4 min., USA, 2004)<br />
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''I'm Charlie Chaplin'' (8 min., USA, 2005)<br />
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''Phantom Limb'' (28 min., USA, 2005)<br />
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''Afraid So'' (3 min., USA, 2006)<br />
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''I Just Wanted to Be Somebody'' (10 min., USA, 2006)<br />
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''Four Questions for a Rabbi'' (12 min., USA, 2008)<br />
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''Beginning Filmmaking'' (23 min., USA, 2008)<br />
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''The Darkness of Day'' (26 min., USA, 2009)<br />
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''The D Train'' (5 min., USA, 2011)<br />
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''Inquire Within'' (4 min., USA, 2012)<br />
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''The Claustrum'' (15 min., USA, 2014)<br />
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''A Long Walk From Home'' (3 min., USA, 2015)<br />
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[[category:Film]] [[category:Famous characters]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:2000s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:Public Art]]</div>Paulgrammhttps://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Greta_Snider,_Experimental_Filmmaker&diff=24046Greta Snider, Experimental Filmmaker2015-05-13T05:24:10Z<p>Paulgramm: </p>
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<div>'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>'''<br />
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''by Paul Grammatico''<br />
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'''Experimental filmmaker Greta Snider talks about gender behind the camera.'''<br />
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''Video by Paul Grammatico''<br />
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Greta Snider is an experimental filmmaker. Her earlier work on 16mm includes a collection of audio and visual experiences that combines photography, found footage, and her own experiences of the San Francisco punk scene in the early 1990s. Her work includes experiments with simultaneous soundtracks (Blood Story, 1990), engaging personal accounts of a scraped-together journey with friends (Portland, 1996), and an audio travelogue of the San Francisco punk scene. Greta Snider's more recent work includes, in collaboration with Johunna Grayson, a series of slide show projections comprised of hand-processed photographs and stereoscopic images. The series is described as an update on the ‘campy Viewmaster format’, riffing on the concept of the travelogue to present the unseen and underground aspects. Subjects range from forgotten aspects of the everyday (“old man bars”, flowers, parts of the body) to the extreme (a Viewmaster series of atomic test blasts). Snider’s films explore the importance of small memories, retrieving pieces of ephemera from the underground and re-presenting them on screen.1 She is currently a tenured Professor at San Francisco State University. <br />
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'''Clip of ''Portland'' (1996)'''<br />
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''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
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<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/hardcorehomemovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
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'''Clip of ''Hard Core Home Movie'' (1989)'''<br />
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''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
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<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/ourgaybrothersfilmclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
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'''Clip of ''Our Gay Brothers'' (1993)'''<br />
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''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
I had the pleasure of having Greta Snider as a teacher at California College of Arts and Crafts (now simply California College of the Arts). She is a fantastic teacher and I was able to view works such as ''Portland'' and other works such as ''Hard Core Home Movie'' and ''Our Gay Brothers''<br />
<br />
Doing research on the films of Greta's, I found that she is the queen of all trades and mistress of all. I say this because her works touch on various aesthetics. From the gritty DIY films of ''Hard Core Home Movie'' and ''Portland'', to found footage collage in the films of ''Futility'' (1989) and ''Our Gay Brothers'', to documentaries such as ''Urine Man'' (2000), to a touching homage to her father in ''Flight'' (1997).<br />
<br />
<br />
In the interview, I asked Greta about gender behind the camera. She replied, "Can you tell if the person shooting or directing the film is male or female...I would say no." In the case of Greta Snider's work, I would say that this is a true statement as I believe that her work doesn't identify gender. Her work is honest, gritty, edgy, and visually stunning. It has no conditions or boundaries and that's as it should be.<br />
<br />
To view the complete interview, please click [https://archive.org/details/gretasniderexperimentalfilmmaker here]<br />
<br />
To know more about Greta Snider, please click [http://www.heatsignature.com/greta.html here] <br />
<br />
To view complete versions of her work, please click [https://vimeo.com/user12288191 here]<br />
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<font size=4>Filmography</font><br />
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''The Magic of Radio'' (23 min., USA, 2001)<br />
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''Urine Man'' (5 min., USA, 2000)<br />
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''Quarry Movie'' (10 min., USA, 1999)<br />
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''Flight'' (5 min., USA, 1997)<br />
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''Portland'' (15 min., USA, 1996)<br />
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''NoZone'' (18 min., USA 1993)<br />
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''Our Gay Brothers'' (9 min., USA 1993)<br />
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''Mute'' (15 min., USA 1991)<br />
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''Blood Story'' (3 min., USA 1990)<br />
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''Futility (10 min., USA 1989)<br />
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''Hard Core Home Movie'' (5 min., USA 1989)<br />
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1 Retrieved from http://cinema.sfsu.edu/people/faculty/greta-snider<br />
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[[category:film]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:1980s]] [[category:2000s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:famous characters]]</div>Paulgrammhttps://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Greta_Snider,_Experimental_Filmmaker&diff=24045Greta Snider, Experimental Filmmaker2015-05-13T05:23:11Z<p>Paulgramm: </p>
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<div>'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>'''<br />
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''by Paul Grammatico''<br />
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<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/gretasnidergenderbehindthecamera" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
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<br />
'''Experimental filmmaker Greta Snider talks about gender behind the camera.'''<br />
<br />
''Video by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
Greta Snider is an experimental filmmaker. Her earlier work on 16mm includes a collection of audio and visual experiences that combines photography, found footage, and her own experiences of the San Francisco punk scene in the early 1990s. Her work includes experiments with simultaneous soundtracks (Blood Story, 1990), engaging personal accounts of a scraped-together journey with friends (Portland, 1996), and an audio travelogue of the San Francisco punk scene. Greta Snider's more recent work includes, in collaboration with Johunna Grayson, a series of slide show projections comprised of hand-processed photographs and stereoscopic images. The series is described as an update on the ‘campy Viewmaster format’, riffing on the concept of the travelogue to present the unseen and underground aspects. Subjects range from forgotten aspects of the everyday (“old man bars”, flowers, parts of the body) to the extreme (a Viewmaster series of atomic test blasts). Snider’s films explore the importance of small memories, retrieving pieces of ephemera from the underground and re-presenting them on screen.1 She is currently a tenured Professor at San Francisco State University. <br />
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<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/portlandflimclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Portland'' (1996)'''<br />
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''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
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<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/hardcorehomemovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Hard Core Home Movie'' (1989)'''<br />
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''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/ourgaybrothersfilmclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Our Gay Brothers'' (1993)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
I had the pleasure of having Greta Snider as a teacher at California College of Arts and Crafts (now simply California College of the Arts). She is a fantastic teacher and I was able to view works such as ''Portland'' and other works such as ''Hard Core Home Movie'' and ''Our Gay Brothers''<br />
<br />
Doing research on the films of Greta's, I found that she is the queen of all trades and mistress of all. I say this because her works touch on various aesthetics. From the gritty DIY films of ''Hard Core Home Movie'' and ''Portland'', to found footage collage in the films of ''Futility'' (1989) and ''Our Gay Brothers'', to documentaries such as ''Urine Man'' (2000), to a touching homage to her father in ''Flight'' (1997).<br />
<br />
<br />
In the interview, I asked Greta about gender behind the camera. She replied, "Can you tell if the person shooting or directing the film is male or female...I would say no." In the case of Greta Snider's work, I would say that this is a true statement as I believe that her work doesn't identify gender. Her work is honest, gritty, edgy, and visually stunning. It has no conditions or boundaries and that's as it should be.<br />
<br />
To view the complete interview click [https://archive.org/details/gretasniderexperimentalfilmmaker here]<br />
<br />
To know more about Greta Snider, please click [http://www.heatsignature.com/greta.html here] <br />
<br />
To view complete versions of her work, please click [https://vimeo.com/user12288191 here]<br />
<br />
<font size=4>Filmography</font><br />
<br />
''The Magic of Radio'' (23 min., USA, 2001)<br />
<br />
''Urine Man'' (5 min., USA, 2000)<br />
<br />
''Quarry Movie'' (10 min., USA, 1999)<br />
<br />
''Flight'' (5 min., USA, 1997)<br />
<br />
''Portland'' (15 min., USA, 1996)<br />
<br />
''NoZone'' (18 min., USA 1993)<br />
<br />
''Our Gay Brothers'' (9 min., USA 1993)<br />
<br />
''Mute'' (15 min., USA 1991)<br />
<br />
''Blood Story'' (3 min., USA 1990)<br />
<br />
''Futility (10 min., USA 1989)<br />
<br />
''Hard Core Home Movie'' (5 min., USA 1989)<br />
<br />
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1 Retrieved from http://cinema.sfsu.edu/people/faculty/greta-snider<br />
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[[category:film]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:1980s]] [[category:2000s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:famous characters]]</div>Paulgrammhttps://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Greta_Snider,_Experimental_Filmmaker&diff=24044Greta Snider, Experimental Filmmaker2015-05-12T18:53:48Z<p>Paulgramm: </p>
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<div>'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>'''<br />
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''by Paul Grammatico''<br />
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<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/gretasniderexperimentalfilmmaker" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
''Video by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
Greta Snider is an experimental filmmaker. Her earlier work on 16mm includes a collection of audio and visual experiences that combines photography, found footage, and her own experiences of the San Francisco punk scene in the early 1990s. Her work includes experiments with simultaneous soundtracks (Blood Story, 1990), engaging personal accounts of a scraped-together journey with friends (Portland, 1996), and an audio travelogue of the San Francisco punk scene. Greta Snider's more recent work includes, in collaboration with Johunna Grayson, a series of slide show projections comprised of hand-processed photographs and stereoscopic images. The series is described as an update on the ‘campy Viewmaster format’, riffing on the concept of the travelogue to present the unseen and underground aspects. Subjects range from forgotten aspects of the everyday (“old man bars”, flowers, parts of the body) to the extreme (a Viewmaster series of atomic test blasts). Snider’s films explore the importance of small memories, retrieving pieces of ephemera from the underground and re-presenting them on screen.1 She is currently a tenured Professor at San Francisco State University. <br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/portlandflimclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Portland'' (1996)'''<br />
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''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
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<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/hardcorehomemovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Hard Core Home Movie'' (1989)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/ourgaybrothersfilmclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Our Gay Brothers'' (1993)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
I had the pleasure of having Greta Snider as a teacher at California College of Arts and Crafts (now simply California College of the Arts). She is a fantastic teacher and I was able to view works such as ''Portland'' and other works such as ''Hard Core Home Movie'' and ''Our Gay Brothers''<br />
<br />
Doing research on the films of Greta's, I found that she is the queen of all trades and mistress of all. I say this because her works touch on various aesthetics. From the gritty DIY films of ''Hard Core Home Movie'' and ''Portland'', to found footage collage in the films of ''Futility'' (1989) and ''Our Gay Brothers'', to documentaries such as ''Urine Man'' (2000), to a touching homage to her father in ''Flight'' (1997).<br />
<br />
<br />
In the interview, I asked Greta about gender behind the camera. She replied, "Can you tell if the person shooting or directing the film is male or female...I would say no." In the case of Greta Snider's work, I would say that this is a true statement as I believe that her work doesn't identify gender. Her work is honest, gritty, edgy, and visually stunning. It has no conditions or boundaries and that's as it should be.<br />
<br />
To know more about Greta Snider, please click [http://www.heatsignature.com/greta.html here] <br />
<br />
To view complete versions of her work, please click [https://vimeo.com/user12288191 here]<br />
<br />
<font size=4>Filmography</font><br />
<br />
''The Magic of Radio'' (23 min., USA, 2001)<br />
<br />
''Urine Man'' (5 min., USA, 2000)<br />
<br />
''Quarry Movie'' (10 min., USA, 1999)<br />
<br />
''Flight'' (5 min., USA, 1997)<br />
<br />
''Portland'' (15 min., USA, 1996)<br />
<br />
''NoZone'' (18 min., USA 1993)<br />
<br />
''Our Gay Brothers'' (9 min., USA 1993)<br />
<br />
''Mute'' (15 min., USA 1991)<br />
<br />
''Blood Story'' (3 min., USA 1990)<br />
<br />
''Futility (10 min., USA 1989)<br />
<br />
''Hard Core Home Movie'' (5 min., USA 1989)<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
1 Retrieved from http://cinema.sfsu.edu/people/faculty/greta-snider<br />
<br />
<br />
[[category:film]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:1980s]] [[category:2000s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:famous characters]]</div>Paulgrammhttps://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Greta_Snider,_Experimental_Filmmaker&diff=24043Greta Snider, Experimental Filmmaker2015-05-12T18:44:48Z<p>Paulgramm: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>'''<br />
<br />
''by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/gretasniderexperimentalfilmmaker" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
''Video by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
Greta Snider is an experimental filmmaker. Her earlier work on 16mm includes a collection of audio and visual experiences that combines photography, found footage, and her own experiences of the San Francisco punk scene in the early 1990s. Her work includes experiments with simultaneous soundtracks (Blood Story, 1990), engaging personal accounts of a scraped-together journey with friends (Portland, 1996), and an audio travelogue of the San Francisco punk scene. Greta Snider's more recent work includes, in collaboration with Johunna Grayson, a series of slide show projections comprised of hand-processed photographs and stereoscopic images. The series is described as an update on the ‘campy Viewmaster format’, riffing on the concept of the travelogue to present the unseen and underground aspects. Subjects range from forgotten aspects of the everyday (“old man bars”, flowers, parts of the body) to the extreme (a Viewmaster series of atomic test blasts). Snider’s films explore the importance of small memories, retrieving pieces of ephemera from the underground and re-presenting them on screen.1 She is currently a tenured Professor at San Francisco State University. <br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/bloodstoryfilmclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Blood Story'' (1990)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/portlandflimclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Portland'' (1996)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/hardcorehomemovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Hard Core Home Movie'' (1989)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/ourgaybrothersfilmclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Our Gay Brothers'' (1993)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
I had the pleasure of having Greta Snider as a teacher at California College of Arts and Crafts (now simply California College of the Arts). She is a fantastic teacher and I was able to view works such as ''Portland'' and other works such as ''Hard Core Home Movie'' and ''Our Gay Brothers''<br />
<br />
Doing research on the films of Greta's, I found that she is the queen of all trades and mistress of all. I say this because her works touch on various aesthetics. From the gritty DIY films of ''Hard Core Home Movie'' and ''Portland'', to found footage collage in the films of ''Futility'' (1989) and ''Our Gay Brothers'', to documentaries such as ''Urine Man'' (2000), to a touching homage to her father in ''Flight'' (1997).<br />
<br />
<br />
In the interview, I asked Greta about gender behind the camera. She replied, "Can you tell if the person shooting or directing the film is male or female...I would say no." In the case of Greta Snider's work, I would say that this is a true statement as I believe that her work doesn't identify gender. Her work is honest, gritty, edgy, and visually stunning. It has no conditions or boundaries and that's as it should be.<br />
<br />
To know more about Greta Snider, please click [http://www.heatsignature.com/greta.html here] <br />
<br />
To view complete versions of her work, please click [https://vimeo.com/user12288191 here]<br />
<br />
<font size=4>Filmography</font><br />
<br />
''The Magic of Radio'' (23 min., USA, 2001)<br />
<br />
''Urine Man'' (5 min., USA, 2000)<br />
<br />
''Quarry Movie'' (10 min., USA, 1999)<br />
<br />
''Flight'' (5 min., USA, 1997)<br />
<br />
''Portland'' (15 min., USA, 1996)<br />
<br />
''NoZone'' (18 min., USA 1993)<br />
<br />
''Our Gay Brothers'' (9 min., USA 1993)<br />
<br />
''Mute'' (15 min., USA 1991)<br />
<br />
''Blood Story'' (3 min., USA 1990)<br />
<br />
''Futility (10 min., USA 1989)<br />
<br />
''Hard Core Home Movie'' (5 min., USA 1989)<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
1 Retrieved from http://cinema.sfsu.edu/people/faculty/greta-snider<br />
<br />
<br />
[[category:film]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:1980s]] [[category:2000s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:famous characters]]</div>Paulgrammhttps://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Greta_Snider,_Experimental_Filmmaker&diff=24042Greta Snider, Experimental Filmmaker2015-05-12T18:43:34Z<p>Paulgramm: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>'''<br />
<br />
''by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/gretasniderexperimentalfilmmaker&poster=http://archive.org/images/map.png" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
''Video by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
Greta Snider is an experimental filmmaker. Her earlier work on 16mm includes a collection of audio and visual experiences that combines photography, found footage, and her own experiences of the San Francisco punk scene in the early 1990s. Her work includes experiments with simultaneous soundtracks (Blood Story, 1990), engaging personal accounts of a scraped-together journey with friends (Portland, 1996), and an audio travelogue of the San Francisco punk scene. Greta Snider's more recent work includes, in collaboration with Johunna Grayson, a series of slide show projections comprised of hand-processed photographs and stereoscopic images. The series is described as an update on the ‘campy Viewmaster format’, riffing on the concept of the travelogue to present the unseen and underground aspects. Subjects range from forgotten aspects of the everyday (“old man bars”, flowers, parts of the body) to the extreme (a Viewmaster series of atomic test blasts). Snider’s films explore the importance of small memories, retrieving pieces of ephemera from the underground and re-presenting them on screen.1 She is currently a tenured Professor at San Francisco State University. <br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/bloodstoryfilmclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Blood Story'' (1990)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/portlandflimclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Portland'' (1996)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/hardcorehomemovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Hard Core Home Movie'' (1989)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/ourgaybrothersfilmclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Our Gay Brothers'' (1993)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
I had the pleasure of having Greta Snider as a teacher at California College of Arts and Crafts (now simply California College of the Arts). She is a fantastic teacher and I was able to view works such as ''Portland'' and other works such as ''Hard Core Home Movie'' and ''Our Gay Brothers''<br />
<br />
Doing research on the films of Greta's, I found that she is the queen of all trades and mistress of all. I say this because her works touch on various aesthetics. From the gritty DIY films of ''Hard Core Home Movie'' and ''Portland'', to found footage collage in the films of ''Futility'' (1989) and ''Our Gay Brothers'', to documentaries such as ''Urine Man'' (2000), to a touching homage to her father in ''Flight'' (1997).<br />
<br />
<br />
In the interview, I asked Greta about gender behind the camera. She replied, "Can you tell if the person shooting or directing the film is male or female...I would say no." In the case of Greta Snider's work, I would say that this is a true statement as I believe that her work doesn't identify gender. Her work is honest, gritty, edgy, and visually stunning. It has no conditions or boundaries and that's as it should be.<br />
<br />
To know more about Greta Snider, please click [http://www.heatsignature.com/greta.html here] <br />
<br />
To view complete versions of her work, please click [https://vimeo.com/user12288191 here]<br />
<br />
<font size=4>Filmography</font><br />
<br />
''The Magic of Radio'' (23 min., USA, 2001)<br />
<br />
''Urine Man'' (5 min., USA, 2000)<br />
<br />
''Quarry Movie'' (10 min., USA, 1999)<br />
<br />
''Flight'' (5 min., USA, 1997)<br />
<br />
''Portland'' (15 min., USA, 1996)<br />
<br />
''NoZone'' (18 min., USA 1993)<br />
<br />
''Our Gay Brothers'' (9 min., USA 1993)<br />
<br />
''Mute'' (15 min., USA 1991)<br />
<br />
''Blood Story'' (3 min., USA 1990)<br />
<br />
''Futility (10 min., USA 1989)<br />
<br />
''Hard Core Home Movie'' (5 min., USA 1989)<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
1 Retrieved from http://cinema.sfsu.edu/people/faculty/greta-snider<br />
<br />
<br />
[[category:film]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:1980s]] [[category:2000s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:famous characters]]</div>Paulgrammhttps://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Greta_Snider,_Experimental_Filmmaker&diff=24041Greta Snider, Experimental Filmmaker2015-05-12T18:41:14Z<p>Paulgramm: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>'''<br />
<br />
''by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/gretasniderexperimentalfilmmaker" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
''Video by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
Greta Snider is an experimental filmmaker. Her earlier work on 16mm includes a collection of audio and visual experiences that combines photography, found footage, and her own experiences of the San Francisco punk scene in the early 1990s. Her work includes experiments with simultaneous soundtracks (Blood Story, 1990), engaging personal accounts of a scraped-together journey with friends (Portland, 1996), and an audio travelogue of the San Francisco punk scene. Greta Snider's more recent work includes, in collaboration with Johunna Grayson, a series of slide show projections comprised of hand-processed photographs and stereoscopic images. The series is described as an update on the ‘campy Viewmaster format’, riffing on the concept of the travelogue to present the unseen and underground aspects. Subjects range from forgotten aspects of the everyday (“old man bars”, flowers, parts of the body) to the extreme (a Viewmaster series of atomic test blasts). Snider’s films explore the importance of small memories, retrieving pieces of ephemera from the underground and re-presenting them on screen.1 She is currently a tenured Professor at San Francisco State University. <br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/bloodstoryfilmclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Blood Story'' (1990)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/portlandflimclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Portland'' (1996)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/hardcorehomemovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Hard Core Home Movie'' (1989)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/ourgaybrothersfilmclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Our Gay Brothers'' (1993)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
I had the pleasure of having Greta Snider as a teacher at California College of Arts and Crafts (now simply California College of the Arts). She is a fantastic teacher and I was able to view works such as ''Portland'' and other works such as ''Hard Core Home Movie'' and ''Our Gay Brothers''<br />
<br />
Doing research on the films of Greta's, I found that she is the queen of all trades and mistress of all. I say this because her works touch on various aesthetics. From the gritty DIY films of ''Hard Core Home Movie'' and ''Portland'', to found footage collage in the films of ''Futility'' (1989) and ''Our Gay Brothers'', to documentaries such as ''Urine Man'' (2000), to a touching homage to her father in ''Flight'' (1997).<br />
<br />
<br />
In the interview, I asked Greta about gender behind the camera. She replied, "Can you tell if the person shooting or directing the film is male or female...I would say no." In the case of Greta Snider's work, I would say that this is a true statement as I believe that her work doesn't identify gender. Her work is honest, gritty, edgy, and visually stunning. It has no conditions or boundaries and that's as it should be.<br />
<br />
To know more about Greta Snider, please click [http://www.heatsignature.com/greta.html here] <br />
<br />
To view complete versions of her work, please click [https://vimeo.com/user12288191 here]<br />
<br />
<font size=4>Filmography</font><br />
<br />
''The Magic of Radio'' (23 min., USA, 2001)<br />
<br />
''Urine Man'' (5 min., USA, 2000)<br />
<br />
''Quarry Movie'' (10 min., USA, 1999)<br />
<br />
''Flight'' (5 min., USA, 1997)<br />
<br />
''Portland'' (15 min., USA, 1996)<br />
<br />
''NoZone'' (18 min., USA 1993)<br />
<br />
''Our Gay Brothers'' (9 min., USA 1993)<br />
<br />
''Mute'' (15 min., USA 1991)<br />
<br />
''Blood Story'' (3 min., USA 1990)<br />
<br />
''Futility (10 min., USA 1989)<br />
<br />
''Hard Core Home Movie'' (5 min., USA 1989)<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
1 Retrieved from http://cinema.sfsu.edu/people/faculty/greta-snider<br />
<br />
<br />
[[category:film]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:1980s]] [[category:2000s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:famous characters]]</div>Paulgrammhttps://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Jay_Rosenblatt,_Filmmaker&diff=24040Jay Rosenblatt, Filmmaker2015-05-12T18:39:00Z<p>Paulgramm: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>'''<br />
<br />
''by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/jayrosenblattfilmmaker" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Jay Rosenblatt talks about his beginnings as a filmmaker.'''<br />
<br />
''Video by Paul Grammatico, videography by Diallo McLinn'' <br />
<br />
<br />
Jay Rosenblatt was born in 1955 in New York City. He migrated to San Francisco and became a filmmaker in 1980. He has completed over 25 films. He has been a film and video production instructor since 1989 at various film schools in the Bay Area, including Stanford University, San Francisco State University, and the San Francisco Art Institute. He has a Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology and, in a former life, worked as a therapist. His work explores our emotional and psychological cores. The films are personal in their content yet universal in their appeal.<br />
<br />
I first came across Rosenblatt’s films in an article on ''SF Gate'' which talked about the now defunct Fine Arts Theatre in Berkeley showing them. (The theatre was at the cross streets of Shattuck and Haste Street until June 30, 2002 when it closed and later was torn down. It is now a vegetarian restaurant.) I had never heard of Rosenblatt, as he was never discussed in my film classes at California College of the Arts. Intrigued, I decided to see his films and I was glad that I did as they had a profound effect on me. <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/humanremainsmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Human Remains'' (1998)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt'' <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
His films such as ''Human Remains'' and ''I Just Wanted to Be Somebody'' are short documentaries that show a different side of known persona, including Hitler, Stalin, Franco, Mussolini, and Mao’s personal habits are described in ''Human Remains'' and Anita Bryant's vociferous anti-gay stance is taken on in ''I Just Wanted to be Somebody''. <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/kingofthejewsmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''King of the Jews'' (2000)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt''<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
In films such as ''Phantom Limb'', ''King of the Jews'', ''The Smell of Burning Ants'', and ''The Darkness of Day'', Rosenblatt opens up to us about family, childhood trauma, and loss. I feel a sense of sadness and empathy for some of the issues he addresses in his films. There is no doubt that there is a catharsis contained in the frames of his films as he (and we) try to make sense of these feelings that we have in the past and how we can learn from them moving forward.<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/phantomlimbmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Phantom Limb'' (2009)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt''<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
I have watched a few of Rosenblatt's interviews, but one stood out to me. The interviewer brings up that Rosenblatt was a therapist in the mental health field and how this was so different than being a filmmaker. Seeing his work, I find him to effectively incorporate his work as a therapist into his films to show that he can display his feelings...and we are allowed to feel right along with him.<br />
<br />
Rosenblatt is a recipient of a Guggenheim, as well as USA Artists and a Rockefeller Fellowship. His films have received over 100 awards and have screened throughout the world. A selection had theatrical runs at the Film Forum in New York and at theaters around the country. Eight of his films have been at the Sundance Film Festival and several have shown on HBO/Cinemax, the Independent Film Channel and the Sundance Channel. Articles about his work have appeared in the Sunday ''New York Times'' "Arts & Leisure" section, the ''Los Angeles Times'', ''Filmmaker'' magazine, and the ''Village Voice''.<br />
<br />
To see the complete interview of Jay Rosenblatt, click [https://archive.org/details/jayrosenblattfilmmaker here.]<br />
<br />
[http://www.jayrosenblattfilms.com/ Get the complete films of Jay Rosenblatt.] <br />
<br />
<font size=4>Filmography</font><br />
<br />
''Doubt'' (11 min., USA, 1981)<br />
<br />
''Blood Test'' (27 min., USA, 1985)<br />
<br />
''Paris X 2'' (26 min., USA, 1988)<br />
<br />
''Brain in the Desert'' (5 min., USA, 1990)<br />
<br />
''Short Of Breath'' (10 min., USA, 1990)<br />
<br />
''The Smell of Burning Ants'' (21 min., USA, 1994)<br />
<br />
''Period Piece'' - Co-directed with Jennifer Frame (30 min., USA, 1996)<br />
<br />
''Human Remains'' (30 min., USA, 1998)<br />
<br />
''A Pregnant Moment'' (24 min., USA, 1999)<br />
<br />
''Restricted" (1 min., USA, 1999)<br />
<br />
''Drop'' (1 min., USA, 2000)<br />
<br />
''King of the Jews'' (18 min., USA, 2000)<br />
<br />
''Worm'' (2 min., USA, 2001)<br />
<br />
''Nine Lives - The Eternal Moment of Now'' (1 min., USA, 2001)<br />
<br />
''Prayer'' (3 min., USA, 2002)<br />
<br />
''Decidi'' (1 min., USA, 2002)<br />
<br />
''Friend Good'' (5 min., USA, 2003)<br />
<br />
''I Used to Be a Filmmaker'' (10 min., USA, 2003)<br />
<br />
''I Like It a Lot'' (4 min., USA, 2004)<br />
<br />
''I'm Charlie Chaplin'' (8 min., USA, 2005)<br />
<br />
''Phantom Limb'' (28 min., USA, 2005)<br />
<br />
''Afraid So'' (3 min., USA, 2006)<br />
<br />
''I Just Wanted to Be Somebody'' (10 min., USA, 2006)<br />
<br />
''Four Questions for a Rabbi'' (12 min., USA, 2008)<br />
<br />
''Beginning Filmmaking'' (23 min., USA, 2008)<br />
<br />
''The Darkness of Day'' (26 min., USA, 2009)<br />
<br />
''The D Train'' (5 min., USA, 2011)<br />
<br />
''Inquire Within'' (4 min., USA, 2012)<br />
<br />
''The Claustrum'' (15 min., USA, 2014)<br />
<br />
''A Long Walk From Home'' (3 min., USA, 2015)<br />
<br />
[[category:Film]] [[category:Famous characters]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:2000s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:Public Art]]</div>Paulgrammhttps://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Jay_Rosenblatt,_Filmmaker&diff=24039Jay Rosenblatt, Filmmaker2015-05-12T18:37:27Z<p>Paulgramm: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>'''<br />
<br />
''by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/jayrosenblattfilmmaker" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Jay Rosenblatt talks about his beginnings as a filmmaker.'''<br />
<br />
''Video by Paul Grammatico, videography by Diallo McLinn'' <br />
<br />
<br />
Jay Rosenblatt was born in 1955 in New York City. He migrated to San Francisco and became a filmmaker in 1980. He has completed over 25 films. He has been a film and video production instructor since 1989 at various film schools in the Bay Area, including Stanford University, San Francisco State University, and the San Francisco Art Institute. He has a Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology and, in a former life, worked as a therapist. His work explores our emotional and psychological cores. The films are personal in their content yet universal in their appeal.<br />
<br />
I first came across Rosenblatt’s films in an article on ''SF Gate'' which talked about the now defunct Fine Arts Theatre in Berkeley showing them. (The theatre was at the cross streets of Shattuck and Haste Street until June 30, 2002 when it closed and later was torn down. It is now a vegetarian restaurant.) I had never heard of Rosenblatt, as he was never discussed in my film classes at California College of the Arts. Intrigued, I decided to see his films and I was glad that I did as they had a profound effect on me. <br />
<br />
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<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/humanremainsmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Human Remains'' (1998)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt'' <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
His films such as ''Human Remains'' and ''I Just Wanted to Be Somebody'' are short documentaries that show a different side of known persona, including Hitler, Stalin, Franco, Mussolini, and Mao’s personal habits are described in ''Human Remains'' and Anita Bryant's vociferous anti-gay stance is taken on in ''I Just Wanted to be Somebody''. <br />
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<br><br />
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<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/kingofthejewsmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''King of the Jews'' (2000)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt''<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
In films such as ''Phantom Limb'', ''King of the Jews'', ''The Smell of Burning Ants'', and ''The Darkness of Day'', Rosenblatt opens up to us about family, childhood trauma, and loss. I feel a sense of sadness and empathy for some of the issues he addresses in his films. There is no doubt that there is a catharsis contained in the frames of his films as he (and we) try to make sense of these feelings that we have in the past and how we can learn from them moving forward.<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/phantomlimbmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Phantom Limb'' (2009)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt''<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
I have watched a few of Rosenblatt's interviews, but one stood out to me. The interviewer brings up that Rosenblatt was a therapist in the mental health field and how this was so different than being a filmmaker. Seeing his work, I find him to effectively incorporate his work as a therapist into his films to show that he can display his feelings...and we are allowed to feel right along with him.<br />
<br />
Rosenblatt is a recipient of a Guggenheim, as well as USA Artists and a Rockefeller Fellowship. His films have received over 100 awards and have screened throughout the world. A selection had theatrical runs at the Film Forum in New York and at theaters around the country. Eight of his films have been at the Sundance Film Festival and several have shown on HBO/Cinemax, the Independent Film Channel and the Sundance Channel. Articles about his work have appeared in the Sunday ''New York Times'' "Arts & Leisure" section, the ''Los Angeles Times'', ''Filmmaker'' magazine, and the ''Village Voice''.<br />
<br />
To see the complete interview of Jay Rosenblatt, click [https://archive.org/embed/jayrosenblattfilmmaker&playlist=1"width="640" height="580" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen here.]<br />
<br />
[http://www.jayrosenblattfilms.com/ Get the complete films of Jay Rosenblatt.] <br />
<br />
<font size=4>Filmography</font><br />
<br />
''Doubt'' (11 min., USA, 1981)<br />
<br />
''Blood Test'' (27 min., USA, 1985)<br />
<br />
''Paris X 2'' (26 min., USA, 1988)<br />
<br />
''Brain in the Desert'' (5 min., USA, 1990)<br />
<br />
''Short Of Breath'' (10 min., USA, 1990)<br />
<br />
''The Smell of Burning Ants'' (21 min., USA, 1994)<br />
<br />
''Period Piece'' - Co-directed with Jennifer Frame (30 min., USA, 1996)<br />
<br />
''Human Remains'' (30 min., USA, 1998)<br />
<br />
''A Pregnant Moment'' (24 min., USA, 1999)<br />
<br />
''Restricted" (1 min., USA, 1999)<br />
<br />
''Drop'' (1 min., USA, 2000)<br />
<br />
''King of the Jews'' (18 min., USA, 2000)<br />
<br />
''Worm'' (2 min., USA, 2001)<br />
<br />
''Nine Lives - The Eternal Moment of Now'' (1 min., USA, 2001)<br />
<br />
''Prayer'' (3 min., USA, 2002)<br />
<br />
''Decidi'' (1 min., USA, 2002)<br />
<br />
''Friend Good'' (5 min., USA, 2003)<br />
<br />
''I Used to Be a Filmmaker'' (10 min., USA, 2003)<br />
<br />
''I Like It a Lot'' (4 min., USA, 2004)<br />
<br />
''I'm Charlie Chaplin'' (8 min., USA, 2005)<br />
<br />
''Phantom Limb'' (28 min., USA, 2005)<br />
<br />
''Afraid So'' (3 min., USA, 2006)<br />
<br />
''I Just Wanted to Be Somebody'' (10 min., USA, 2006)<br />
<br />
''Four Questions for a Rabbi'' (12 min., USA, 2008)<br />
<br />
''Beginning Filmmaking'' (23 min., USA, 2008)<br />
<br />
''The Darkness of Day'' (26 min., USA, 2009)<br />
<br />
''The D Train'' (5 min., USA, 2011)<br />
<br />
''Inquire Within'' (4 min., USA, 2012)<br />
<br />
''The Claustrum'' (15 min., USA, 2014)<br />
<br />
''A Long Walk From Home'' (3 min., USA, 2015)<br />
<br />
[[category:Film]] [[category:Famous characters]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:2000s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:Public Art]]</div>Paulgrammhttps://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Jay_Rosenblatt,_Filmmaker&diff=24038Jay Rosenblatt, Filmmaker2015-05-12T18:36:07Z<p>Paulgramm: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>'''<br />
<br />
''by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/jayrosenblattfilmmaker" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Jay Rosenblatt talks about his beginnings as a filmmaker.'''<br />
<br />
''Video by Paul Grammatico, videography by Diallo McLinn'' <br />
<br />
<br />
Jay Rosenblatt was born in 1955 in New York City. He migrated to San Francisco and became a filmmaker in 1980. He has completed over 25 films. He has been a film and video production instructor since 1989 at various film schools in the Bay Area, including Stanford University, San Francisco State University, and the San Francisco Art Institute. He has a Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology and, in a former life, worked as a therapist. His work explores our emotional and psychological cores. The films are personal in their content yet universal in their appeal.<br />
<br />
I first came across Rosenblatt’s films in an article on ''SF Gate'' which talked about the now defunct Fine Arts Theatre in Berkeley showing them. (The theatre was at the cross streets of Shattuck and Haste Street until June 30, 2002 when it closed and later was torn down. It is now a vegetarian restaurant.) I had never heard of Rosenblatt, as he was never discussed in my film classes at California College of the Arts. Intrigued, I decided to see his films and I was glad that I did as they had a profound effect on me. <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/humanremainsmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Human Remains'' (1998)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt'' <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
His films such as ''Human Remains'' and ''I Just Wanted to Be Somebody'' are short documentaries that show a different side of known persona, including Hitler, Stalin, Franco, Mussolini, and Mao’s personal habits are described in ''Human Remains'' and Anita Bryant's vociferous anti-gay stance is taken on in ''I Just Wanted to be Somebody''. <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/kingofthejewsmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''King of the Jews'' (2000)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt''<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
In films such as ''Phantom Limb'', ''King of the Jews'', ''The Smell of Burning Ants'', and ''The Darkness of Day'', Rosenblatt opens up to us about family, childhood trauma, and loss. I feel a sense of sadness and empathy for some of the issues he addresses in his films. There is no doubt that there is a catharsis contained in the frames of his films as he (and we) try to make sense of these feelings that we have in the past and how we can learn from them moving forward.<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/phantomlimbmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Phantom Limb'' (2009)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt''<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
I have watched a few of Rosenblatt's interviews, but one stood out to me. The interviewer brings up that Rosenblatt was a therapist in the mental health field and how this was so different than being a filmmaker. Seeing his work, I find him to effectively incorporate his work as a therapist into his films to show that he can display his feelings...and we are allowed to feel right along with him.<br />
<br />
Rosenblatt is a recipient of a Guggenheim, as well as USA Artists and a Rockefeller Fellowship. His films have received over 100 awards and have screened throughout the world. A selection had theatrical runs at the Film Forum in New York and at theaters around the country. Eight of his films have been at the Sundance Film Festival and several have shown on HBO/Cinemax, the Independent Film Channel and the Sundance Channel. Articles about his work have appeared in the Sunday ''New York Times'' "Arts & Leisure" section, the ''Los Angeles Times'', ''Filmmaker'' magazine, and the ''Village Voice''.<br />
<br />
To see the complete interview of Jay Rosenblatt, click [https://archive.org/embed/jayrosenblattfilmmaker&playlist=1"width="640" height="580" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen here]<br />
<br />
[http://www.jayrosenblattfilms.com/ Get the complete films of Jay Rosenblatt.] <br />
<br />
<font size=4>Filmography</font><br />
<br />
''Doubt'' (11 min., USA, 1981)<br />
<br />
''Blood Test'' (27 min., USA, 1985)<br />
<br />
''Paris X 2'' (26 min., USA, 1988)<br />
<br />
''Brain in the Desert'' (5 min., USA, 1990)<br />
<br />
''Short Of Breath'' (10 min., USA, 1990)<br />
<br />
''The Smell of Burning Ants'' (21 min., USA, 1994)<br />
<br />
''Period Piece'' - Co-directed with Jennifer Frame (30 min., USA, 1996)<br />
<br />
''Human Remains'' (30 min., USA, 1998)<br />
<br />
''A Pregnant Moment'' (24 min., USA, 1999)<br />
<br />
''Restricted" (1 min., USA, 1999)<br />
<br />
''Drop'' (1 min., USA, 2000)<br />
<br />
''King of the Jews'' (18 min., USA, 2000)<br />
<br />
''Worm'' (2 min., USA, 2001)<br />
<br />
''Nine Lives - The Eternal Moment of Now'' (1 min., USA, 2001)<br />
<br />
''Prayer'' (3 min., USA, 2002)<br />
<br />
''Decidi'' (1 min., USA, 2002)<br />
<br />
''Friend Good'' (5 min., USA, 2003)<br />
<br />
''I Used to Be a Filmmaker'' (10 min., USA, 2003)<br />
<br />
''I Like It a Lot'' (4 min., USA, 2004)<br />
<br />
''I'm Charlie Chaplin'' (8 min., USA, 2005)<br />
<br />
''Phantom Limb'' (28 min., USA, 2005)<br />
<br />
''Afraid So'' (3 min., USA, 2006)<br />
<br />
''I Just Wanted to Be Somebody'' (10 min., USA, 2006)<br />
<br />
''Four Questions for a Rabbi'' (12 min., USA, 2008)<br />
<br />
''Beginning Filmmaking'' (23 min., USA, 2008)<br />
<br />
''The Darkness of Day'' (26 min., USA, 2009)<br />
<br />
''The D Train'' (5 min., USA, 2011)<br />
<br />
''Inquire Within'' (4 min., USA, 2012)<br />
<br />
''The Claustrum'' (15 min., USA, 2014)<br />
<br />
''A Long Walk From Home'' (3 min., USA, 2015)<br />
<br />
[[category:Film]] [[category:Famous characters]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:2000s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:Public Art]]</div>Paulgrammhttps://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Jay_Rosenblatt,_Filmmaker&diff=24037Jay Rosenblatt, Filmmaker2015-05-12T18:35:14Z<p>Paulgramm: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>'''<br />
<br />
''by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/jayrosenblattfilmmaker" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Jay Rosenblatt talks about his beginnings as a filmmaker.'''<br />
<br />
''Video by Paul Grammatico, videography by Diallo McLinn'' <br />
<br />
<br />
Jay Rosenblatt was born in 1955 in New York City. He migrated to San Francisco and became a filmmaker in 1980. He has completed over 25 films. He has been a film and video production instructor since 1989 at various film schools in the Bay Area, including Stanford University, San Francisco State University, and the San Francisco Art Institute. He has a Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology and, in a former life, worked as a therapist. His work explores our emotional and psychological cores. The films are personal in their content yet universal in their appeal.<br />
<br />
I first came across Rosenblatt’s films in an article on ''SF Gate'' which talked about the now defunct Fine Arts Theatre in Berkeley showing them. (The theatre was at the cross streets of Shattuck and Haste Street until June 30, 2002 when it closed and later was torn down. It is now a vegetarian restaurant.) I had never heard of Rosenblatt, as he was never discussed in my film classes at California College of the Arts. Intrigued, I decided to see his films and I was glad that I did as they had a profound effect on me. <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/humanremainsmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Human Remains'' (1998)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt'' <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
His films such as ''Human Remains'' and ''I Just Wanted to Be Somebody'' are short documentaries that show a different side of known persona, including Hitler, Stalin, Franco, Mussolini, and Mao’s personal habits are described in ''Human Remains'' and Anita Bryant's vociferous anti-gay stance is taken on in ''I Just Wanted to be Somebody''. <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/kingofthejewsmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''King of the Jews'' (2000)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt''<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
In films such as ''Phantom Limb'', ''King of the Jews'', ''The Smell of Burning Ants'', and ''The Darkness of Day'', Rosenblatt opens up to us about family, childhood trauma, and loss. I feel a sense of sadness and empathy for some of the issues he addresses in his films. There is no doubt that there is a catharsis contained in the frames of his films as he (and we) try to make sense of these feelings that we have in the past and how we can learn from them moving forward.<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/phantomlimbmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Phantom Limb'' (2009)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt''<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
I have watched a few of Rosenblatt's interviews, but one stood out to me. The interviewer brings up that Rosenblatt was a therapist in the mental health field and how this was so different than being a filmmaker. Seeing his work, I find him to effectively incorporate his work as a therapist into his films to show that he can display his feelings...and we are allowed to feel right along with him.<br />
<br />
Rosenblatt is a recipient of a Guggenheim, as well as USA Artists and a Rockefeller Fellowship. His films have received over 100 awards and have screened throughout the world. A selection had theatrical runs at the Film Forum in New York and at theaters around the country. Eight of his films have been at the Sundance Film Festival and several have shown on HBO/Cinemax, the Independent Film Channel and the Sundance Channel. Articles about his work have appeared in the Sunday ''New York Times'' "Arts & Leisure" section, the ''Los Angeles Times'', ''Filmmaker'' magazine, and the ''Village Voice''.<br />
<br />
To see the complete interview of Jay Rosenblatt, click [https://archive.org/embed/jayrosenblattfilmmaker&playlist=1"width="640" height="580" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen/ here]<br />
<br />
[http://www.jayrosenblattfilms.com/ Get the complete films of Jay Rosenblatt.] <br />
<br />
<font size=4>Filmography</font><br />
<br />
''Doubt'' (11 min., USA, 1981)<br />
<br />
''Blood Test'' (27 min., USA, 1985)<br />
<br />
''Paris X 2'' (26 min., USA, 1988)<br />
<br />
''Brain in the Desert'' (5 min., USA, 1990)<br />
<br />
''Short Of Breath'' (10 min., USA, 1990)<br />
<br />
''The Smell of Burning Ants'' (21 min., USA, 1994)<br />
<br />
''Period Piece'' - Co-directed with Jennifer Frame (30 min., USA, 1996)<br />
<br />
''Human Remains'' (30 min., USA, 1998)<br />
<br />
''A Pregnant Moment'' (24 min., USA, 1999)<br />
<br />
''Restricted" (1 min., USA, 1999)<br />
<br />
''Drop'' (1 min., USA, 2000)<br />
<br />
''King of the Jews'' (18 min., USA, 2000)<br />
<br />
''Worm'' (2 min., USA, 2001)<br />
<br />
''Nine Lives - The Eternal Moment of Now'' (1 min., USA, 2001)<br />
<br />
''Prayer'' (3 min., USA, 2002)<br />
<br />
''Decidi'' (1 min., USA, 2002)<br />
<br />
''Friend Good'' (5 min., USA, 2003)<br />
<br />
''I Used to Be a Filmmaker'' (10 min., USA, 2003)<br />
<br />
''I Like It a Lot'' (4 min., USA, 2004)<br />
<br />
''I'm Charlie Chaplin'' (8 min., USA, 2005)<br />
<br />
''Phantom Limb'' (28 min., USA, 2005)<br />
<br />
''Afraid So'' (3 min., USA, 2006)<br />
<br />
''I Just Wanted to Be Somebody'' (10 min., USA, 2006)<br />
<br />
''Four Questions for a Rabbi'' (12 min., USA, 2008)<br />
<br />
''Beginning Filmmaking'' (23 min., USA, 2008)<br />
<br />
''The Darkness of Day'' (26 min., USA, 2009)<br />
<br />
''The D Train'' (5 min., USA, 2011)<br />
<br />
''Inquire Within'' (4 min., USA, 2012)<br />
<br />
''The Claustrum'' (15 min., USA, 2014)<br />
<br />
''A Long Walk From Home'' (3 min., USA, 2015)<br />
<br />
[[category:Film]] [[category:Famous characters]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:2000s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:Public Art]]</div>Paulgrammhttps://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Jay_Rosenblatt,_Filmmaker&diff=24036Jay Rosenblatt, Filmmaker2015-05-12T18:34:31Z<p>Paulgramm: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>'''<br />
<br />
''by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/jayrosenblattfilmmaker" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Jay Rosenblatt talks about his beginnings as a filmmaker.'''<br />
<br />
''Video by Paul Grammatico, videography by Diallo McLinn'' <br />
<br />
<br />
Jay Rosenblatt was born in 1955 in New York City. He migrated to San Francisco and became a filmmaker in 1980. He has completed over 25 films. He has been a film and video production instructor since 1989 at various film schools in the Bay Area, including Stanford University, San Francisco State University, and the San Francisco Art Institute. He has a Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology and, in a former life, worked as a therapist. His work explores our emotional and psychological cores. The films are personal in their content yet universal in their appeal.<br />
<br />
I first came across Rosenblatt’s films in an article on ''SF Gate'' which talked about the now defunct Fine Arts Theatre in Berkeley showing them. (The theatre was at the cross streets of Shattuck and Haste Street until June 30, 2002 when it closed and later was torn down. It is now a vegetarian restaurant.) I had never heard of Rosenblatt, as he was never discussed in my film classes at California College of the Arts. Intrigued, I decided to see his films and I was glad that I did as they had a profound effect on me. <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/humanremainsmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Human Remains'' (1998)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt'' <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
His films such as ''Human Remains'' and ''I Just Wanted to Be Somebody'' are short documentaries that show a different side of known persona, including Hitler, Stalin, Franco, Mussolini, and Mao’s personal habits are described in ''Human Remains'' and Anita Bryant's vociferous anti-gay stance is taken on in ''I Just Wanted to be Somebody''. <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/kingofthejewsmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''King of the Jews'' (2000)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt''<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
In films such as ''Phantom Limb'', ''King of the Jews'', ''The Smell of Burning Ants'', and ''The Darkness of Day'', Rosenblatt opens up to us about family, childhood trauma, and loss. I feel a sense of sadness and empathy for some of the issues he addresses in his films. There is no doubt that there is a catharsis contained in the frames of his films as he (and we) try to make sense of these feelings that we have in the past and how we can learn from them moving forward.<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/phantomlimbmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Phantom Limb'' (2009)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt''<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
I have watched a few of Rosenblatt's interviews, but one stood out to me. The interviewer brings up that Rosenblatt was a therapist in the mental health field and how this was so different than being a filmmaker. Seeing his work, I find him to effectively incorporate his work as a therapist into his films to show that he can display his feelings...and we are allowed to feel right along with him.<br />
<br />
Rosenblatt is a recipient of a Guggenheim, as well as USA Artists and a Rockefeller Fellowship. His films have received over 100 awards and have screened throughout the world. A selection had theatrical runs at the Film Forum in New York and at theaters around the country. Eight of his films have been at the Sundance Film Festival and several have shown on HBO/Cinemax, the Independent Film Channel and the Sundance Channel. Articles about his work have appeared in the Sunday ''New York Times'' "Arts & Leisure" section, the ''Los Angeles Times'', ''Filmmaker'' magazine, and the ''Village Voice''.<br />
<br />
To see the complete interview of Jay Rosenblatt, click [https://archive.org/embed/jayrosenblattfilmmaker&playlist=1" width="640" height="580" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen/ here]<br />
<br />
[http://www.jayrosenblattfilms.com/ Get the complete films of Jay Rosenblatt.] <br />
<br />
<font size=4>Filmography</font><br />
<br />
''Doubt'' (11 min., USA, 1981)<br />
<br />
''Blood Test'' (27 min., USA, 1985)<br />
<br />
''Paris X 2'' (26 min., USA, 1988)<br />
<br />
''Brain in the Desert'' (5 min., USA, 1990)<br />
<br />
''Short Of Breath'' (10 min., USA, 1990)<br />
<br />
''The Smell of Burning Ants'' (21 min., USA, 1994)<br />
<br />
''Period Piece'' - Co-directed with Jennifer Frame (30 min., USA, 1996)<br />
<br />
''Human Remains'' (30 min., USA, 1998)<br />
<br />
''A Pregnant Moment'' (24 min., USA, 1999)<br />
<br />
''Restricted" (1 min., USA, 1999)<br />
<br />
''Drop'' (1 min., USA, 2000)<br />
<br />
''King of the Jews'' (18 min., USA, 2000)<br />
<br />
''Worm'' (2 min., USA, 2001)<br />
<br />
''Nine Lives - The Eternal Moment of Now'' (1 min., USA, 2001)<br />
<br />
''Prayer'' (3 min., USA, 2002)<br />
<br />
''Decidi'' (1 min., USA, 2002)<br />
<br />
''Friend Good'' (5 min., USA, 2003)<br />
<br />
''I Used to Be a Filmmaker'' (10 min., USA, 2003)<br />
<br />
''I Like It a Lot'' (4 min., USA, 2004)<br />
<br />
''I'm Charlie Chaplin'' (8 min., USA, 2005)<br />
<br />
''Phantom Limb'' (28 min., USA, 2005)<br />
<br />
''Afraid So'' (3 min., USA, 2006)<br />
<br />
''I Just Wanted to Be Somebody'' (10 min., USA, 2006)<br />
<br />
''Four Questions for a Rabbi'' (12 min., USA, 2008)<br />
<br />
''Beginning Filmmaking'' (23 min., USA, 2008)<br />
<br />
''The Darkness of Day'' (26 min., USA, 2009)<br />
<br />
''The D Train'' (5 min., USA, 2011)<br />
<br />
''Inquire Within'' (4 min., USA, 2012)<br />
<br />
''The Claustrum'' (15 min., USA, 2014)<br />
<br />
''A Long Walk From Home'' (3 min., USA, 2015)<br />
<br />
[[category:Film]] [[category:Famous characters]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:2000s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:Public Art]]</div>Paulgrammhttps://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Jay_Rosenblatt,_Filmmaker&diff=24035Jay Rosenblatt, Filmmaker2015-05-12T18:33:50Z<p>Paulgramm: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>'''<br />
<br />
''by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/jayrosenblattfilmmaker" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Jay Rosenblatt talks about his beginnings as a filmmaker.'''<br />
<br />
''Video by Paul Grammatico, videography by Diallo McLinn'' <br />
<br />
<br />
Jay Rosenblatt was born in 1955 in New York City. He migrated to San Francisco and became a filmmaker in 1980. He has completed over 25 films. He has been a film and video production instructor since 1989 at various film schools in the Bay Area, including Stanford University, San Francisco State University, and the San Francisco Art Institute. He has a Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology and, in a former life, worked as a therapist. His work explores our emotional and psychological cores. The films are personal in their content yet universal in their appeal.<br />
<br />
I first came across Rosenblatt’s films in an article on ''SF Gate'' which talked about the now defunct Fine Arts Theatre in Berkeley showing them. (The theatre was at the cross streets of Shattuck and Haste Street until June 30, 2002 when it closed and later was torn down. It is now a vegetarian restaurant.) I had never heard of Rosenblatt, as he was never discussed in my film classes at California College of the Arts. Intrigued, I decided to see his films and I was glad that I did as they had a profound effect on me. <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/humanremainsmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Human Remains'' (1998)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt'' <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
His films such as ''Human Remains'' and ''I Just Wanted to Be Somebody'' are short documentaries that show a different side of known persona, including Hitler, Stalin, Franco, Mussolini, and Mao’s personal habits are described in ''Human Remains'' and Anita Bryant's vociferous anti-gay stance is taken on in ''I Just Wanted to be Somebody''. <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/kingofthejewsmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''King of the Jews'' (2000)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt''<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
In films such as ''Phantom Limb'', ''King of the Jews'', ''The Smell of Burning Ants'', and ''The Darkness of Day'', Rosenblatt opens up to us about family, childhood trauma, and loss. I feel a sense of sadness and empathy for some of the issues he addresses in his films. There is no doubt that there is a catharsis contained in the frames of his films as he (and we) try to make sense of these feelings that we have in the past and how we can learn from them moving forward.<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/phantomlimbmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Phantom Limb'' (2009)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt''<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
I have watched a few of Rosenblatt's interviews, but one stood out to me. The interviewer brings up that Rosenblatt was a therapist in the mental health field and how this was so different than being a filmmaker. Seeing his work, I find him to effectively incorporate his work as a therapist into his films to show that he can display his feelings...and we are allowed to feel right along with him.<br />
<br />
Rosenblatt is a recipient of a Guggenheim, as well as USA Artists and a Rockefeller Fellowship. His films have received over 100 awards and have screened throughout the world. A selection had theatrical runs at the Film Forum in New York and at theaters around the country. Eight of his films have been at the Sundance Film Festival and several have shown on HBO/Cinemax, the Independent Film Channel and the Sundance Channel. Articles about his work have appeared in the Sunday ''New York Times'' "Arts & Leisure" section, the ''Los Angeles Times'', ''Filmmaker'' magazine, and the ''Village Voice''.<br />
<br />
To see the complete interview of Jay Rosenblatt, click [https://archive.org/embed/jayrosenblattfilmmaker&playlist=1" width="640" height="580" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen here]<br />
<br />
[http://www.jayrosenblattfilms.com/ Get the complete films of Jay Rosenblatt.] <br />
<br />
<font size=4>Filmography</font><br />
<br />
''Doubt'' (11 min., USA, 1981)<br />
<br />
''Blood Test'' (27 min., USA, 1985)<br />
<br />
''Paris X 2'' (26 min., USA, 1988)<br />
<br />
''Brain in the Desert'' (5 min., USA, 1990)<br />
<br />
''Short Of Breath'' (10 min., USA, 1990)<br />
<br />
''The Smell of Burning Ants'' (21 min., USA, 1994)<br />
<br />
''Period Piece'' - Co-directed with Jennifer Frame (30 min., USA, 1996)<br />
<br />
''Human Remains'' (30 min., USA, 1998)<br />
<br />
''A Pregnant Moment'' (24 min., USA, 1999)<br />
<br />
''Restricted" (1 min., USA, 1999)<br />
<br />
''Drop'' (1 min., USA, 2000)<br />
<br />
''King of the Jews'' (18 min., USA, 2000)<br />
<br />
''Worm'' (2 min., USA, 2001)<br />
<br />
''Nine Lives - The Eternal Moment of Now'' (1 min., USA, 2001)<br />
<br />
''Prayer'' (3 min., USA, 2002)<br />
<br />
''Decidi'' (1 min., USA, 2002)<br />
<br />
''Friend Good'' (5 min., USA, 2003)<br />
<br />
''I Used to Be a Filmmaker'' (10 min., USA, 2003)<br />
<br />
''I Like It a Lot'' (4 min., USA, 2004)<br />
<br />
''I'm Charlie Chaplin'' (8 min., USA, 2005)<br />
<br />
''Phantom Limb'' (28 min., USA, 2005)<br />
<br />
''Afraid So'' (3 min., USA, 2006)<br />
<br />
''I Just Wanted to Be Somebody'' (10 min., USA, 2006)<br />
<br />
''Four Questions for a Rabbi'' (12 min., USA, 2008)<br />
<br />
''Beginning Filmmaking'' (23 min., USA, 2008)<br />
<br />
''The Darkness of Day'' (26 min., USA, 2009)<br />
<br />
''The D Train'' (5 min., USA, 2011)<br />
<br />
''Inquire Within'' (4 min., USA, 2012)<br />
<br />
''The Claustrum'' (15 min., USA, 2014)<br />
<br />
''A Long Walk From Home'' (3 min., USA, 2015)<br />
<br />
[[category:Film]] [[category:Famous characters]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:2000s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:Public Art]]</div>Paulgrammhttps://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Jay_Rosenblatt,_Filmmaker&diff=24034Jay Rosenblatt, Filmmaker2015-05-12T18:31:35Z<p>Paulgramm: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>'''<br />
<br />
''by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/jayrosenblattfilmmaker" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Jay Rosenblatt talks about his beginnings as a filmmaker.'''<br />
<br />
''Video by Paul Grammatico, videography by Diallo McLinn'' <br />
<br />
<br />
Jay Rosenblatt was born in 1955 in New York City. He migrated to San Francisco and became a filmmaker in 1980. He has completed over 25 films. He has been a film and video production instructor since 1989 at various film schools in the Bay Area, including Stanford University, San Francisco State University, and the San Francisco Art Institute. He has a Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology and, in a former life, worked as a therapist. His work explores our emotional and psychological cores. The films are personal in their content yet universal in their appeal.<br />
<br />
I first came across Rosenblatt’s films in an article on ''SF Gate'' which talked about the now defunct Fine Arts Theatre in Berkeley showing them. (The theatre was at the cross streets of Shattuck and Haste Street until June 30, 2002 when it closed and later was torn down. It is now a vegetarian restaurant.) I had never heard of Rosenblatt, as he was never discussed in my film classes at California College of the Arts. Intrigued, I decided to see his films and I was glad that I did as they had a profound effect on me. <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/humanremainsmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Human Remains'' (1998)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt'' <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
His films such as ''Human Remains'' and ''I Just Wanted to Be Somebody'' are short documentaries that show a different side of known persona, including Hitler, Stalin, Franco, Mussolini, and Mao’s personal habits are described in ''Human Remains'' and Anita Bryant's vociferous anti-gay stance is taken on in ''I Just Wanted to be Somebody''. <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/kingofthejewsmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''King of the Jews'' (2000)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt''<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
In films such as ''Phantom Limb'', ''King of the Jews'', ''The Smell of Burning Ants'', and ''The Darkness of Day'', Rosenblatt opens up to us about family, childhood trauma, and loss. I feel a sense of sadness and empathy for some of the issues he addresses in his films. There is no doubt that there is a catharsis contained in the frames of his films as he (and we) try to make sense of these feelings that we have in the past and how we can learn from them moving forward.<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/phantomlimbmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Phantom Limb'' (2009)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt''<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
I have watched a few of Rosenblatt's interviews, but one stood out to me. The interviewer brings up that Rosenblatt was a therapist in the mental health field and how this was so different than being a filmmaker. Seeing his work, I find him to effectively incorporate his work as a therapist into his films to show that he can display his feelings...and we are allowed to feel right along with him.<br />
<br />
Rosenblatt is a recipient of a Guggenheim, as well as USA Artists and a Rockefeller Fellowship. His films have received over 100 awards and have screened throughout the world. A selection had theatrical runs at the Film Forum in New York and at theaters around the country. Eight of his films have been at the Sundance Film Festival and several have shown on HBO/Cinemax, the Independent Film Channel and the Sundance Channel. Articles about his work have appeared in the Sunday ''New York Times'' "Arts & Leisure" section, the ''Los Angeles Times'', ''Filmmaker'' magazine, and the ''Village Voice''.<br />
<br />
To see the complete interview of Jay Rosenblatt, click [https://archive.org/embed/jayrosenblattfilmmaker&playlist=1" width="640" height="580" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen/iframe here]<br />
<br />
[http://www.jayrosenblattfilms.com/ Get the complete films of Jay Rosenblatt.] <br />
<br />
<font size=4>Filmography</font><br />
<br />
''Doubt'' (11 min., USA, 1981)<br />
<br />
''Blood Test'' (27 min., USA, 1985)<br />
<br />
''Paris X 2'' (26 min., USA, 1988)<br />
<br />
''Brain in the Desert'' (5 min., USA, 1990)<br />
<br />
''Short Of Breath'' (10 min., USA, 1990)<br />
<br />
''The Smell of Burning Ants'' (21 min., USA, 1994)<br />
<br />
''Period Piece'' - Co-directed with Jennifer Frame (30 min., USA, 1996)<br />
<br />
''Human Remains'' (30 min., USA, 1998)<br />
<br />
''A Pregnant Moment'' (24 min., USA, 1999)<br />
<br />
''Restricted" (1 min., USA, 1999)<br />
<br />
''Drop'' (1 min., USA, 2000)<br />
<br />
''King of the Jews'' (18 min., USA, 2000)<br />
<br />
''Worm'' (2 min., USA, 2001)<br />
<br />
''Nine Lives - The Eternal Moment of Now'' (1 min., USA, 2001)<br />
<br />
''Prayer'' (3 min., USA, 2002)<br />
<br />
''Decidi'' (1 min., USA, 2002)<br />
<br />
''Friend Good'' (5 min., USA, 2003)<br />
<br />
''I Used to Be a Filmmaker'' (10 min., USA, 2003)<br />
<br />
''I Like It a Lot'' (4 min., USA, 2004)<br />
<br />
''I'm Charlie Chaplin'' (8 min., USA, 2005)<br />
<br />
''Phantom Limb'' (28 min., USA, 2005)<br />
<br />
''Afraid So'' (3 min., USA, 2006)<br />
<br />
''I Just Wanted to Be Somebody'' (10 min., USA, 2006)<br />
<br />
''Four Questions for a Rabbi'' (12 min., USA, 2008)<br />
<br />
''Beginning Filmmaking'' (23 min., USA, 2008)<br />
<br />
''The Darkness of Day'' (26 min., USA, 2009)<br />
<br />
''The D Train'' (5 min., USA, 2011)<br />
<br />
''Inquire Within'' (4 min., USA, 2012)<br />
<br />
''The Claustrum'' (15 min., USA, 2014)<br />
<br />
''A Long Walk From Home'' (3 min., USA, 2015)<br />
<br />
[[category:Film]] [[category:Famous characters]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:2000s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:Public Art]]</div>Paulgrammhttps://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Jay_Rosenblatt,_Filmmaker&diff=24033Jay Rosenblatt, Filmmaker2015-05-12T18:30:59Z<p>Paulgramm: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>'''<br />
<br />
''by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/jayrosenblattfilmmaker" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Jay Rosenblatt talks about his beginnings as a filmmaker.'''<br />
<br />
''Video by Paul Grammatico, videography by Diallo McLinn'' <br />
<br />
<br />
Jay Rosenblatt was born in 1955 in New York City. He migrated to San Francisco and became a filmmaker in 1980. He has completed over 25 films. He has been a film and video production instructor since 1989 at various film schools in the Bay Area, including Stanford University, San Francisco State University, and the San Francisco Art Institute. He has a Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology and, in a former life, worked as a therapist. His work explores our emotional and psychological cores. The films are personal in their content yet universal in their appeal.<br />
<br />
I first came across Rosenblatt’s films in an article on ''SF Gate'' which talked about the now defunct Fine Arts Theatre in Berkeley showing them. (The theatre was at the cross streets of Shattuck and Haste Street until June 30, 2002 when it closed and later was torn down. It is now a vegetarian restaurant.) I had never heard of Rosenblatt, as he was never discussed in my film classes at California College of the Arts. Intrigued, I decided to see his films and I was glad that I did as they had a profound effect on me. <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/humanremainsmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Human Remains'' (1998)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt'' <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
His films such as ''Human Remains'' and ''I Just Wanted to Be Somebody'' are short documentaries that show a different side of known persona, including Hitler, Stalin, Franco, Mussolini, and Mao’s personal habits are described in ''Human Remains'' and Anita Bryant's vociferous anti-gay stance is taken on in ''I Just Wanted to be Somebody''. <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/kingofthejewsmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''King of the Jews'' (2000)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt''<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
In films such as ''Phantom Limb'', ''King of the Jews'', ''The Smell of Burning Ants'', and ''The Darkness of Day'', Rosenblatt opens up to us about family, childhood trauma, and loss. I feel a sense of sadness and empathy for some of the issues he addresses in his films. There is no doubt that there is a catharsis contained in the frames of his films as he (and we) try to make sense of these feelings that we have in the past and how we can learn from them moving forward.<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/phantomlimbmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Phantom Limb'' (2009)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt''<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
I have watched a few of Rosenblatt's interviews, but one stood out to me. The interviewer brings up that Rosenblatt was a therapist in the mental health field and how this was so different than being a filmmaker. Seeing his work, I find him to effectively incorporate his work as a therapist into his films to show that he can display his feelings...and we are allowed to feel right along with him.<br />
<br />
Rosenblatt is a recipient of a Guggenheim, as well as USA Artists and a Rockefeller Fellowship. His films have received over 100 awards and have screened throughout the world. A selection had theatrical runs at the Film Forum in New York and at theaters around the country. Eight of his films have been at the Sundance Film Festival and several have shown on HBO/Cinemax, the Independent Film Channel and the Sundance Channel. Articles about his work have appeared in the Sunday ''New York Times'' "Arts & Leisure" section, the ''Los Angeles Times'', ''Filmmaker'' magazine, and the ''Village Voice''.<br />
<br />
To see the complete interview of Jay Rosenblatt, click [https://archive.org/embed/jayrosenblattfilmmaker&playlist=1" width="640" height="580" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen/iframe: here]<br />
<br />
[http://www.jayrosenblattfilms.com/ Get the complete films of Jay Rosenblatt.] <br />
<br />
<font size=4>Filmography</font><br />
<br />
''Doubt'' (11 min., USA, 1981)<br />
<br />
''Blood Test'' (27 min., USA, 1985)<br />
<br />
''Paris X 2'' (26 min., USA, 1988)<br />
<br />
''Brain in the Desert'' (5 min., USA, 1990)<br />
<br />
''Short Of Breath'' (10 min., USA, 1990)<br />
<br />
''The Smell of Burning Ants'' (21 min., USA, 1994)<br />
<br />
''Period Piece'' - Co-directed with Jennifer Frame (30 min., USA, 1996)<br />
<br />
''Human Remains'' (30 min., USA, 1998)<br />
<br />
''A Pregnant Moment'' (24 min., USA, 1999)<br />
<br />
''Restricted" (1 min., USA, 1999)<br />
<br />
''Drop'' (1 min., USA, 2000)<br />
<br />
''King of the Jews'' (18 min., USA, 2000)<br />
<br />
''Worm'' (2 min., USA, 2001)<br />
<br />
''Nine Lives - The Eternal Moment of Now'' (1 min., USA, 2001)<br />
<br />
''Prayer'' (3 min., USA, 2002)<br />
<br />
''Decidi'' (1 min., USA, 2002)<br />
<br />
''Friend Good'' (5 min., USA, 2003)<br />
<br />
''I Used to Be a Filmmaker'' (10 min., USA, 2003)<br />
<br />
''I Like It a Lot'' (4 min., USA, 2004)<br />
<br />
''I'm Charlie Chaplin'' (8 min., USA, 2005)<br />
<br />
''Phantom Limb'' (28 min., USA, 2005)<br />
<br />
''Afraid So'' (3 min., USA, 2006)<br />
<br />
''I Just Wanted to Be Somebody'' (10 min., USA, 2006)<br />
<br />
''Four Questions for a Rabbi'' (12 min., USA, 2008)<br />
<br />
''Beginning Filmmaking'' (23 min., USA, 2008)<br />
<br />
''The Darkness of Day'' (26 min., USA, 2009)<br />
<br />
''The D Train'' (5 min., USA, 2011)<br />
<br />
''Inquire Within'' (4 min., USA, 2012)<br />
<br />
''The Claustrum'' (15 min., USA, 2014)<br />
<br />
''A Long Walk From Home'' (3 min., USA, 2015)<br />
<br />
[[category:Film]] [[category:Famous characters]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:2000s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:Public Art]]</div>Paulgrammhttps://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Jay_Rosenblatt,_Filmmaker&diff=24032Jay Rosenblatt, Filmmaker2015-05-12T18:29:53Z<p>Paulgramm: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>'''<br />
<br />
''by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/jayrosenblattfilmmaker" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Jay Rosenblatt talks about his beginnings as a filmmaker.'''<br />
<br />
''Video by Paul Grammatico, videography by Diallo McLinn'' <br />
<br />
<br />
Jay Rosenblatt was born in 1955 in New York City. He migrated to San Francisco and became a filmmaker in 1980. He has completed over 25 films. He has been a film and video production instructor since 1989 at various film schools in the Bay Area, including Stanford University, San Francisco State University, and the San Francisco Art Institute. He has a Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology and, in a former life, worked as a therapist. His work explores our emotional and psychological cores. The films are personal in their content yet universal in their appeal.<br />
<br />
I first came across Rosenblatt’s films in an article on ''SF Gate'' which talked about the now defunct Fine Arts Theatre in Berkeley showing them. (The theatre was at the cross streets of Shattuck and Haste Street until June 30, 2002 when it closed and later was torn down. It is now a vegetarian restaurant.) I had never heard of Rosenblatt, as he was never discussed in my film classes at California College of the Arts. Intrigued, I decided to see his films and I was glad that I did as they had a profound effect on me. <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/humanremainsmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Human Remains'' (1998)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt'' <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
His films such as ''Human Remains'' and ''I Just Wanted to Be Somebody'' are short documentaries that show a different side of known persona, including Hitler, Stalin, Franco, Mussolini, and Mao’s personal habits are described in ''Human Remains'' and Anita Bryant's vociferous anti-gay stance is taken on in ''I Just Wanted to be Somebody''. <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/kingofthejewsmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''King of the Jews'' (2000)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt''<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
In films such as ''Phantom Limb'', ''King of the Jews'', ''The Smell of Burning Ants'', and ''The Darkness of Day'', Rosenblatt opens up to us about family, childhood trauma, and loss. I feel a sense of sadness and empathy for some of the issues he addresses in his films. There is no doubt that there is a catharsis contained in the frames of his films as he (and we) try to make sense of these feelings that we have in the past and how we can learn from them moving forward.<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/phantomlimbmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Phantom Limb'' (2009)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt''<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
I have watched a few of Rosenblatt's interviews, but one stood out to me. The interviewer brings up that Rosenblatt was a therapist in the mental health field and how this was so different than being a filmmaker. Seeing his work, I find him to effectively incorporate his work as a therapist into his films to show that he can display his feelings...and we are allowed to feel right along with him.<br />
<br />
Rosenblatt is a recipient of a Guggenheim, as well as USA Artists and a Rockefeller Fellowship. His films have received over 100 awards and have screened throughout the world. A selection had theatrical runs at the Film Forum in New York and at theaters around the country. Eight of his films have been at the Sundance Film Festival and several have shown on HBO/Cinemax, the Independent Film Channel and the Sundance Channel. Articles about his work have appeared in the Sunday ''New York Times'' "Arts & Leisure" section, the ''Los Angeles Times'', ''Filmmaker'' magazine, and the ''Village Voice''.<br />
<br />
To see the complete interview of Jay Rosenblatt, click [iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/jayrosenblattfilmmaker&playlist=1" width="640" height="580" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen/iframe: here]<br />
<br />
[http://www.jayrosenblattfilms.com/ Get the complete films of Jay Rosenblatt.] <br />
<br />
<font size=4>Filmography</font><br />
<br />
''Doubt'' (11 min., USA, 1981)<br />
<br />
''Blood Test'' (27 min., USA, 1985)<br />
<br />
''Paris X 2'' (26 min., USA, 1988)<br />
<br />
''Brain in the Desert'' (5 min., USA, 1990)<br />
<br />
''Short Of Breath'' (10 min., USA, 1990)<br />
<br />
''The Smell of Burning Ants'' (21 min., USA, 1994)<br />
<br />
''Period Piece'' - Co-directed with Jennifer Frame (30 min., USA, 1996)<br />
<br />
''Human Remains'' (30 min., USA, 1998)<br />
<br />
''A Pregnant Moment'' (24 min., USA, 1999)<br />
<br />
''Restricted" (1 min., USA, 1999)<br />
<br />
''Drop'' (1 min., USA, 2000)<br />
<br />
''King of the Jews'' (18 min., USA, 2000)<br />
<br />
''Worm'' (2 min., USA, 2001)<br />
<br />
''Nine Lives - The Eternal Moment of Now'' (1 min., USA, 2001)<br />
<br />
''Prayer'' (3 min., USA, 2002)<br />
<br />
''Decidi'' (1 min., USA, 2002)<br />
<br />
''Friend Good'' (5 min., USA, 2003)<br />
<br />
''I Used to Be a Filmmaker'' (10 min., USA, 2003)<br />
<br />
''I Like It a Lot'' (4 min., USA, 2004)<br />
<br />
''I'm Charlie Chaplin'' (8 min., USA, 2005)<br />
<br />
''Phantom Limb'' (28 min., USA, 2005)<br />
<br />
''Afraid So'' (3 min., USA, 2006)<br />
<br />
''I Just Wanted to Be Somebody'' (10 min., USA, 2006)<br />
<br />
''Four Questions for a Rabbi'' (12 min., USA, 2008)<br />
<br />
''Beginning Filmmaking'' (23 min., USA, 2008)<br />
<br />
''The Darkness of Day'' (26 min., USA, 2009)<br />
<br />
''The D Train'' (5 min., USA, 2011)<br />
<br />
''Inquire Within'' (4 min., USA, 2012)<br />
<br />
''The Claustrum'' (15 min., USA, 2014)<br />
<br />
''A Long Walk From Home'' (3 min., USA, 2015)<br />
<br />
[[category:Film]] [[category:Famous characters]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:2000s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:Public Art]]</div>Paulgrammhttps://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Jay_Rosenblatt,_Filmmaker&diff=24031Jay Rosenblatt, Filmmaker2015-05-12T18:28:43Z<p>Paulgramm: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>'''<br />
<br />
''by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/jayrosenblattfilmmaker" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Jay Rosenblatt talks about his beginnings as a filmmaker.'''<br />
<br />
''Video by Paul Grammatico, videography by Diallo McLinn'' <br />
<br />
<br />
Jay Rosenblatt was born in 1955 in New York City. He migrated to San Francisco and became a filmmaker in 1980. He has completed over 25 films. He has been a film and video production instructor since 1989 at various film schools in the Bay Area, including Stanford University, San Francisco State University, and the San Francisco Art Institute. He has a Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology and, in a former life, worked as a therapist. His work explores our emotional and psychological cores. The films are personal in their content yet universal in their appeal.<br />
<br />
I first came across Rosenblatt’s films in an article on ''SF Gate'' which talked about the now defunct Fine Arts Theatre in Berkeley showing them. (The theatre was at the cross streets of Shattuck and Haste Street until June 30, 2002 when it closed and later was torn down. It is now a vegetarian restaurant.) I had never heard of Rosenblatt, as he was never discussed in my film classes at California College of the Arts. Intrigued, I decided to see his films and I was glad that I did as they had a profound effect on me. <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/humanremainsmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Human Remains'' (1998)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt'' <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
His films such as ''Human Remains'' and ''I Just Wanted to Be Somebody'' are short documentaries that show a different side of known persona, including Hitler, Stalin, Franco, Mussolini, and Mao’s personal habits are described in ''Human Remains'' and Anita Bryant's vociferous anti-gay stance is taken on in ''I Just Wanted to be Somebody''. <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/kingofthejewsmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''King of the Jews'' (2000)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt''<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
In films such as ''Phantom Limb'', ''King of the Jews'', ''The Smell of Burning Ants'', and ''The Darkness of Day'', Rosenblatt opens up to us about family, childhood trauma, and loss. I feel a sense of sadness and empathy for some of the issues he addresses in his films. There is no doubt that there is a catharsis contained in the frames of his films as he (and we) try to make sense of these feelings that we have in the past and how we can learn from them moving forward.<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/phantomlimbmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Phantom Limb'' (2009)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt''<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
I have watched a few of Rosenblatt's interviews, but one stood out to me. The interviewer brings up that Rosenblatt was a therapist in the mental health field and how this was so different than being a filmmaker. Seeing his work, I find him to effectively incorporate his work as a therapist into his films to show that he can display his feelings...and we are allowed to feel right along with him.<br />
<br />
Rosenblatt is a recipient of a Guggenheim, as well as USA Artists and a Rockefeller Fellowship. His films have received over 100 awards and have screened throughout the world. A selection had theatrical runs at the Film Forum in New York and at theaters around the country. Eight of his films have been at the Sundance Film Festival and several have shown on HBO/Cinemax, the Independent Film Channel and the Sundance Channel. Articles about his work have appeared in the Sunday ''New York Times'' "Arts & Leisure" section, the ''Los Angeles Times'', ''Filmmaker'' magazine, and the ''Village Voice''.<br />
<br />
To see the complete interview of Jay Rosenblatt, click [iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/jayrosenblattfilmmaker&playlist=1" width="640" height="580" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen/iframe here]<br />
<br />
[http://www.jayrosenblattfilms.com/ Get the complete films of Jay Rosenblatt.] <br />
<br />
<font size=4>Filmography</font><br />
<br />
''Doubt'' (11 min., USA, 1981)<br />
<br />
''Blood Test'' (27 min., USA, 1985)<br />
<br />
''Paris X 2'' (26 min., USA, 1988)<br />
<br />
''Brain in the Desert'' (5 min., USA, 1990)<br />
<br />
''Short Of Breath'' (10 min., USA, 1990)<br />
<br />
''The Smell of Burning Ants'' (21 min., USA, 1994)<br />
<br />
''Period Piece'' - Co-directed with Jennifer Frame (30 min., USA, 1996)<br />
<br />
''Human Remains'' (30 min., USA, 1998)<br />
<br />
''A Pregnant Moment'' (24 min., USA, 1999)<br />
<br />
''Restricted" (1 min., USA, 1999)<br />
<br />
''Drop'' (1 min., USA, 2000)<br />
<br />
''King of the Jews'' (18 min., USA, 2000)<br />
<br />
''Worm'' (2 min., USA, 2001)<br />
<br />
''Nine Lives - The Eternal Moment of Now'' (1 min., USA, 2001)<br />
<br />
''Prayer'' (3 min., USA, 2002)<br />
<br />
''Decidi'' (1 min., USA, 2002)<br />
<br />
''Friend Good'' (5 min., USA, 2003)<br />
<br />
''I Used to Be a Filmmaker'' (10 min., USA, 2003)<br />
<br />
''I Like It a Lot'' (4 min., USA, 2004)<br />
<br />
''I'm Charlie Chaplin'' (8 min., USA, 2005)<br />
<br />
''Phantom Limb'' (28 min., USA, 2005)<br />
<br />
''Afraid So'' (3 min., USA, 2006)<br />
<br />
''I Just Wanted to Be Somebody'' (10 min., USA, 2006)<br />
<br />
''Four Questions for a Rabbi'' (12 min., USA, 2008)<br />
<br />
''Beginning Filmmaking'' (23 min., USA, 2008)<br />
<br />
''The Darkness of Day'' (26 min., USA, 2009)<br />
<br />
''The D Train'' (5 min., USA, 2011)<br />
<br />
''Inquire Within'' (4 min., USA, 2012)<br />
<br />
''The Claustrum'' (15 min., USA, 2014)<br />
<br />
''A Long Walk From Home'' (3 min., USA, 2015)<br />
<br />
[[category:Film]] [[category:Famous characters]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:2000s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:Public Art]]</div>Paulgrammhttps://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Jay_Rosenblatt,_Filmmaker&diff=24030Jay Rosenblatt, Filmmaker2015-05-12T18:27:21Z<p>Paulgramm: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>'''<br />
<br />
''by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/jayrosenblattfilmmaker" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Jay Rosenblatt talks about his beginnings as a filmmaker.'''<br />
<br />
''Video by Paul Grammatico, videography by Diallo McLinn'' <br />
<br />
<br />
Jay Rosenblatt was born in 1955 in New York City. He migrated to San Francisco and became a filmmaker in 1980. He has completed over 25 films. He has been a film and video production instructor since 1989 at various film schools in the Bay Area, including Stanford University, San Francisco State University, and the San Francisco Art Institute. He has a Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology and, in a former life, worked as a therapist. His work explores our emotional and psychological cores. The films are personal in their content yet universal in their appeal.<br />
<br />
I first came across Rosenblatt’s films in an article on ''SF Gate'' which talked about the now defunct Fine Arts Theatre in Berkeley showing them. (The theatre was at the cross streets of Shattuck and Haste Street until June 30, 2002 when it closed and later was torn down. It is now a vegetarian restaurant.) I had never heard of Rosenblatt, as he was never discussed in my film classes at California College of the Arts. Intrigued, I decided to see his films and I was glad that I did as they had a profound effect on me. <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/humanremainsmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Human Remains'' (1998)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt'' <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
His films such as ''Human Remains'' and ''I Just Wanted to Be Somebody'' are short documentaries that show a different side of known persona, including Hitler, Stalin, Franco, Mussolini, and Mao’s personal habits are described in ''Human Remains'' and Anita Bryant's vociferous anti-gay stance is taken on in ''I Just Wanted to be Somebody''. <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/kingofthejewsmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''King of the Jews'' (2000)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt''<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
In films such as ''Phantom Limb'', ''King of the Jews'', ''The Smell of Burning Ants'', and ''The Darkness of Day'', Rosenblatt opens up to us about family, childhood trauma, and loss. I feel a sense of sadness and empathy for some of the issues he addresses in his films. There is no doubt that there is a catharsis contained in the frames of his films as he (and we) try to make sense of these feelings that we have in the past and how we can learn from them moving forward.<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/phantomlimbmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Phantom Limb'' (2009)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt''<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
I have watched a few of Rosenblatt's interviews, but one stood out to me. The interviewer brings up that Rosenblatt was a therapist in the mental health field and how this was so different than being a filmmaker. Seeing his work, I find him to effectively incorporate his work as a therapist into his films to show that he can display his feelings...and we are allowed to feel right along with him.<br />
<br />
Rosenblatt is a recipient of a Guggenheim, as well as USA Artists and a Rockefeller Fellowship. His films have received over 100 awards and have screened throughout the world. A selection had theatrical runs at the Film Forum in New York and at theaters around the country. Eight of his films have been at the Sundance Film Festival and several have shown on HBO/Cinemax, the Independent Film Channel and the Sundance Channel. Articles about his work have appeared in the Sunday ''New York Times'' "Arts & Leisure" section, the ''Los Angeles Times'', ''Filmmaker'' magazine, and the ''Village Voice''.<br />
<br />
To see the complete interview of Jay Rosenblatt, click [<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/jayrosenblattfilmmaker&playlist=1" width="640" height="580" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe> here]<br />
<br />
[http://www.jayrosenblattfilms.com/ Get the complete films of Jay Rosenblatt.] <br />
<br />
<font size=4>Filmography</font><br />
<br />
''Doubt'' (11 min., USA, 1981)<br />
<br />
''Blood Test'' (27 min., USA, 1985)<br />
<br />
''Paris X 2'' (26 min., USA, 1988)<br />
<br />
''Brain in the Desert'' (5 min., USA, 1990)<br />
<br />
''Short Of Breath'' (10 min., USA, 1990)<br />
<br />
''The Smell of Burning Ants'' (21 min., USA, 1994)<br />
<br />
''Period Piece'' - Co-directed with Jennifer Frame (30 min., USA, 1996)<br />
<br />
''Human Remains'' (30 min., USA, 1998)<br />
<br />
''A Pregnant Moment'' (24 min., USA, 1999)<br />
<br />
''Restricted" (1 min., USA, 1999)<br />
<br />
''Drop'' (1 min., USA, 2000)<br />
<br />
''King of the Jews'' (18 min., USA, 2000)<br />
<br />
''Worm'' (2 min., USA, 2001)<br />
<br />
''Nine Lives - The Eternal Moment of Now'' (1 min., USA, 2001)<br />
<br />
''Prayer'' (3 min., USA, 2002)<br />
<br />
''Decidi'' (1 min., USA, 2002)<br />
<br />
''Friend Good'' (5 min., USA, 2003)<br />
<br />
''I Used to Be a Filmmaker'' (10 min., USA, 2003)<br />
<br />
''I Like It a Lot'' (4 min., USA, 2004)<br />
<br />
''I'm Charlie Chaplin'' (8 min., USA, 2005)<br />
<br />
''Phantom Limb'' (28 min., USA, 2005)<br />
<br />
''Afraid So'' (3 min., USA, 2006)<br />
<br />
''I Just Wanted to Be Somebody'' (10 min., USA, 2006)<br />
<br />
''Four Questions for a Rabbi'' (12 min., USA, 2008)<br />
<br />
''Beginning Filmmaking'' (23 min., USA, 2008)<br />
<br />
''The Darkness of Day'' (26 min., USA, 2009)<br />
<br />
''The D Train'' (5 min., USA, 2011)<br />
<br />
''Inquire Within'' (4 min., USA, 2012)<br />
<br />
''The Claustrum'' (15 min., USA, 2014)<br />
<br />
''A Long Walk From Home'' (3 min., USA, 2015)<br />
<br />
[[category:Film]] [[category:Famous characters]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:2000s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:Public Art]]</div>Paulgrammhttps://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Jay_Rosenblatt,_Filmmaker&diff=24029Jay Rosenblatt, Filmmaker2015-05-12T18:26:09Z<p>Paulgramm: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>'''<br />
<br />
''by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/jayrosenblattfilmmaker" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Jay Rosenblatt talks about his beginnings as a filmmaker.'''<br />
<br />
''Video by Paul Grammatico, videography by Diallo McLinn'' <br />
<br />
<br />
Jay Rosenblatt was born in 1955 in New York City. He migrated to San Francisco and became a filmmaker in 1980. He has completed over 25 films. He has been a film and video production instructor since 1989 at various film schools in the Bay Area, including Stanford University, San Francisco State University, and the San Francisco Art Institute. He has a Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology and, in a former life, worked as a therapist. His work explores our emotional and psychological cores. The films are personal in their content yet universal in their appeal.<br />
<br />
I first came across Rosenblatt’s films in an article on ''SF Gate'' which talked about the now defunct Fine Arts Theatre in Berkeley showing them. (The theatre was at the cross streets of Shattuck and Haste Street until June 30, 2002 when it closed and later was torn down. It is now a vegetarian restaurant.) I had never heard of Rosenblatt, as he was never discussed in my film classes at California College of the Arts. Intrigued, I decided to see his films and I was glad that I did as they had a profound effect on me. <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/humanremainsmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Human Remains'' (1998)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt'' <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
His films such as ''Human Remains'' and ''I Just Wanted to Be Somebody'' are short documentaries that show a different side of known persona, including Hitler, Stalin, Franco, Mussolini, and Mao’s personal habits are described in ''Human Remains'' and Anita Bryant's vociferous anti-gay stance is taken on in ''I Just Wanted to be Somebody''. <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/kingofthejewsmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''King of the Jews'' (2000)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt''<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
In films such as ''Phantom Limb'', ''King of the Jews'', ''The Smell of Burning Ants'', and ''The Darkness of Day'', Rosenblatt opens up to us about family, childhood trauma, and loss. I feel a sense of sadness and empathy for some of the issues he addresses in his films. There is no doubt that there is a catharsis contained in the frames of his films as he (and we) try to make sense of these feelings that we have in the past and how we can learn from them moving forward.<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/phantomlimbmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Phantom Limb'' (2009)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt''<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
I have watched a few of Rosenblatt's interviews, but one stood out to me. The interviewer brings up that Rosenblatt was a therapist in the mental health field and how this was so different than being a filmmaker. Seeing his work, I find him to effectively incorporate his work as a therapist into his films to show that he can display his feelings...and we are allowed to feel right along with him.<br />
<br />
Rosenblatt is a recipient of a Guggenheim, as well as USA Artists and a Rockefeller Fellowship. His films have received over 100 awards and have screened throughout the world. A selection had theatrical runs at the Film Forum in New York and at theaters around the country. Eight of his films have been at the Sundance Film Festival and several have shown on HBO/Cinemax, the Independent Film Channel and the Sundance Channel. Articles about his work have appeared in the Sunday ''New York Times'' "Arts & Leisure" section, the ''Los Angeles Times'', ''Filmmaker'' magazine, and the ''Village Voice''.<br />
<br />
To see the complete interview of Jay Rosenblatt, click [<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/jayrosenblattfilmmaker&playlist=1" width="640" height="580" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe>:here]<br />
<br />
[http://www.jayrosenblattfilms.com/ Get the complete films of Jay Rosenblatt.] <br />
<br />
<font size=4>Filmography</font><br />
<br />
''Doubt'' (11 min., USA, 1981)<br />
<br />
''Blood Test'' (27 min., USA, 1985)<br />
<br />
''Paris X 2'' (26 min., USA, 1988)<br />
<br />
''Brain in the Desert'' (5 min., USA, 1990)<br />
<br />
''Short Of Breath'' (10 min., USA, 1990)<br />
<br />
''The Smell of Burning Ants'' (21 min., USA, 1994)<br />
<br />
''Period Piece'' - Co-directed with Jennifer Frame (30 min., USA, 1996)<br />
<br />
''Human Remains'' (30 min., USA, 1998)<br />
<br />
''A Pregnant Moment'' (24 min., USA, 1999)<br />
<br />
''Restricted" (1 min., USA, 1999)<br />
<br />
''Drop'' (1 min., USA, 2000)<br />
<br />
''King of the Jews'' (18 min., USA, 2000)<br />
<br />
''Worm'' (2 min., USA, 2001)<br />
<br />
''Nine Lives - The Eternal Moment of Now'' (1 min., USA, 2001)<br />
<br />
''Prayer'' (3 min., USA, 2002)<br />
<br />
''Decidi'' (1 min., USA, 2002)<br />
<br />
''Friend Good'' (5 min., USA, 2003)<br />
<br />
''I Used to Be a Filmmaker'' (10 min., USA, 2003)<br />
<br />
''I Like It a Lot'' (4 min., USA, 2004)<br />
<br />
''I'm Charlie Chaplin'' (8 min., USA, 2005)<br />
<br />
''Phantom Limb'' (28 min., USA, 2005)<br />
<br />
''Afraid So'' (3 min., USA, 2006)<br />
<br />
''I Just Wanted to Be Somebody'' (10 min., USA, 2006)<br />
<br />
''Four Questions for a Rabbi'' (12 min., USA, 2008)<br />
<br />
''Beginning Filmmaking'' (23 min., USA, 2008)<br />
<br />
''The Darkness of Day'' (26 min., USA, 2009)<br />
<br />
''The D Train'' (5 min., USA, 2011)<br />
<br />
''Inquire Within'' (4 min., USA, 2012)<br />
<br />
''The Claustrum'' (15 min., USA, 2014)<br />
<br />
''A Long Walk From Home'' (3 min., USA, 2015)<br />
<br />
[[category:Film]] [[category:Famous characters]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:2000s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:Public Art]]</div>Paulgrammhttps://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Jay_Rosenblatt,_Filmmaker&diff=24028Jay Rosenblatt, Filmmaker2015-05-12T18:25:44Z<p>Paulgramm: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>'''<br />
<br />
''by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/jayrosenblattfilmmaker" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Jay Rosenblatt talks about his beginnings as a filmmaker.'''<br />
<br />
''Video by Paul Grammatico, videography by Diallo McLinn'' <br />
<br />
<br />
Jay Rosenblatt was born in 1955 in New York City. He migrated to San Francisco and became a filmmaker in 1980. He has completed over 25 films. He has been a film and video production instructor since 1989 at various film schools in the Bay Area, including Stanford University, San Francisco State University, and the San Francisco Art Institute. He has a Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology and, in a former life, worked as a therapist. His work explores our emotional and psychological cores. The films are personal in their content yet universal in their appeal.<br />
<br />
I first came across Rosenblatt’s films in an article on ''SF Gate'' which talked about the now defunct Fine Arts Theatre in Berkeley showing them. (The theatre was at the cross streets of Shattuck and Haste Street until June 30, 2002 when it closed and later was torn down. It is now a vegetarian restaurant.) I had never heard of Rosenblatt, as he was never discussed in my film classes at California College of the Arts. Intrigued, I decided to see his films and I was glad that I did as they had a profound effect on me. <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/humanremainsmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Human Remains'' (1998)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt'' <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
His films such as ''Human Remains'' and ''I Just Wanted to Be Somebody'' are short documentaries that show a different side of known persona, including Hitler, Stalin, Franco, Mussolini, and Mao’s personal habits are described in ''Human Remains'' and Anita Bryant's vociferous anti-gay stance is taken on in ''I Just Wanted to be Somebody''. <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/kingofthejewsmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''King of the Jews'' (2000)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt''<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
In films such as ''Phantom Limb'', ''King of the Jews'', ''The Smell of Burning Ants'', and ''The Darkness of Day'', Rosenblatt opens up to us about family, childhood trauma, and loss. I feel a sense of sadness and empathy for some of the issues he addresses in his films. There is no doubt that there is a catharsis contained in the frames of his films as he (and we) try to make sense of these feelings that we have in the past and how we can learn from them moving forward.<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/phantomlimbmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Phantom Limb'' (2009)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt''<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
I have watched a few of Rosenblatt's interviews, but one stood out to me. The interviewer brings up that Rosenblatt was a therapist in the mental health field and how this was so different than being a filmmaker. Seeing his work, I find him to effectively incorporate his work as a therapist into his films to show that he can display his feelings...and we are allowed to feel right along with him.<br />
<br />
Rosenblatt is a recipient of a Guggenheim, as well as USA Artists and a Rockefeller Fellowship. His films have received over 100 awards and have screened throughout the world. A selection had theatrical runs at the Film Forum in New York and at theaters around the country. Eight of his films have been at the Sundance Film Festival and several have shown on HBO/Cinemax, the Independent Film Channel and the Sundance Channel. Articles about his work have appeared in the Sunday ''New York Times'' "Arts & Leisure" section, the ''Los Angeles Times'', ''Filmmaker'' magazine, and the ''Village Voice''.<br />
<br />
To see the complete interview of Jay Rosenblatt, click [<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/jayrosenblattfilmmaker&playlist=1" width="640" height="580" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe>:here]]<br />
<br />
[http://www.jayrosenblattfilms.com/ Get the complete films of Jay Rosenblatt.] <br />
<br />
<font size=4>Filmography</font><br />
<br />
''Doubt'' (11 min., USA, 1981)<br />
<br />
''Blood Test'' (27 min., USA, 1985)<br />
<br />
''Paris X 2'' (26 min., USA, 1988)<br />
<br />
''Brain in the Desert'' (5 min., USA, 1990)<br />
<br />
''Short Of Breath'' (10 min., USA, 1990)<br />
<br />
''The Smell of Burning Ants'' (21 min., USA, 1994)<br />
<br />
''Period Piece'' - Co-directed with Jennifer Frame (30 min., USA, 1996)<br />
<br />
''Human Remains'' (30 min., USA, 1998)<br />
<br />
''A Pregnant Moment'' (24 min., USA, 1999)<br />
<br />
''Restricted" (1 min., USA, 1999)<br />
<br />
''Drop'' (1 min., USA, 2000)<br />
<br />
''King of the Jews'' (18 min., USA, 2000)<br />
<br />
''Worm'' (2 min., USA, 2001)<br />
<br />
''Nine Lives - The Eternal Moment of Now'' (1 min., USA, 2001)<br />
<br />
''Prayer'' (3 min., USA, 2002)<br />
<br />
''Decidi'' (1 min., USA, 2002)<br />
<br />
''Friend Good'' (5 min., USA, 2003)<br />
<br />
''I Used to Be a Filmmaker'' (10 min., USA, 2003)<br />
<br />
''I Like It a Lot'' (4 min., USA, 2004)<br />
<br />
''I'm Charlie Chaplin'' (8 min., USA, 2005)<br />
<br />
''Phantom Limb'' (28 min., USA, 2005)<br />
<br />
''Afraid So'' (3 min., USA, 2006)<br />
<br />
''I Just Wanted to Be Somebody'' (10 min., USA, 2006)<br />
<br />
''Four Questions for a Rabbi'' (12 min., USA, 2008)<br />
<br />
''Beginning Filmmaking'' (23 min., USA, 2008)<br />
<br />
''The Darkness of Day'' (26 min., USA, 2009)<br />
<br />
''The D Train'' (5 min., USA, 2011)<br />
<br />
''Inquire Within'' (4 min., USA, 2012)<br />
<br />
''The Claustrum'' (15 min., USA, 2014)<br />
<br />
''A Long Walk From Home'' (3 min., USA, 2015)<br />
<br />
[[category:Film]] [[category:Famous characters]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:2000s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:Public Art]]</div>Paulgrammhttps://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Jay_Rosenblatt,_Filmmaker&diff=24027Jay Rosenblatt, Filmmaker2015-05-12T18:25:12Z<p>Paulgramm: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>'''<br />
<br />
''by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/jayrosenblattfilmmaker" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Jay Rosenblatt talks about his beginnings as a filmmaker.'''<br />
<br />
''Video by Paul Grammatico, videography by Diallo McLinn'' <br />
<br />
<br />
Jay Rosenblatt was born in 1955 in New York City. He migrated to San Francisco and became a filmmaker in 1980. He has completed over 25 films. He has been a film and video production instructor since 1989 at various film schools in the Bay Area, including Stanford University, San Francisco State University, and the San Francisco Art Institute. He has a Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology and, in a former life, worked as a therapist. His work explores our emotional and psychological cores. The films are personal in their content yet universal in their appeal.<br />
<br />
I first came across Rosenblatt’s films in an article on ''SF Gate'' which talked about the now defunct Fine Arts Theatre in Berkeley showing them. (The theatre was at the cross streets of Shattuck and Haste Street until June 30, 2002 when it closed and later was torn down. It is now a vegetarian restaurant.) I had never heard of Rosenblatt, as he was never discussed in my film classes at California College of the Arts. Intrigued, I decided to see his films and I was glad that I did as they had a profound effect on me. <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/humanremainsmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Human Remains'' (1998)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt'' <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
His films such as ''Human Remains'' and ''I Just Wanted to Be Somebody'' are short documentaries that show a different side of known persona, including Hitler, Stalin, Franco, Mussolini, and Mao’s personal habits are described in ''Human Remains'' and Anita Bryant's vociferous anti-gay stance is taken on in ''I Just Wanted to be Somebody''. <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/kingofthejewsmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''King of the Jews'' (2000)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt''<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
In films such as ''Phantom Limb'', ''King of the Jews'', ''The Smell of Burning Ants'', and ''The Darkness of Day'', Rosenblatt opens up to us about family, childhood trauma, and loss. I feel a sense of sadness and empathy for some of the issues he addresses in his films. There is no doubt that there is a catharsis contained in the frames of his films as he (and we) try to make sense of these feelings that we have in the past and how we can learn from them moving forward.<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/phantomlimbmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Phantom Limb'' (2009)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt''<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
I have watched a few of Rosenblatt's interviews, but one stood out to me. The interviewer brings up that Rosenblatt was a therapist in the mental health field and how this was so different than being a filmmaker. Seeing his work, I find him to effectively incorporate his work as a therapist into his films to show that he can display his feelings...and we are allowed to feel right along with him.<br />
<br />
Rosenblatt is a recipient of a Guggenheim, as well as USA Artists and a Rockefeller Fellowship. His films have received over 100 awards and have screened throughout the world. A selection had theatrical runs at the Film Forum in New York and at theaters around the country. Eight of his films have been at the Sundance Film Festival and several have shown on HBO/Cinemax, the Independent Film Channel and the Sundance Channel. Articles about his work have appeared in the Sunday ''New York Times'' "Arts & Leisure" section, the ''Los Angeles Times'', ''Filmmaker'' magazine, and the ''Village Voice''.<br />
<br />
To see the complete interview of Jay Rosenblatt, click [[<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/jayrosenblattfilmmaker&playlist=1" width="640" height="580" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe>:here]]<br />
<br />
[http://www.jayrosenblattfilms.com/ Get the complete films of Jay Rosenblatt.] <br />
<br />
<font size=4>Filmography</font><br />
<br />
''Doubt'' (11 min., USA, 1981)<br />
<br />
''Blood Test'' (27 min., USA, 1985)<br />
<br />
''Paris X 2'' (26 min., USA, 1988)<br />
<br />
''Brain in the Desert'' (5 min., USA, 1990)<br />
<br />
''Short Of Breath'' (10 min., USA, 1990)<br />
<br />
''The Smell of Burning Ants'' (21 min., USA, 1994)<br />
<br />
''Period Piece'' - Co-directed with Jennifer Frame (30 min., USA, 1996)<br />
<br />
''Human Remains'' (30 min., USA, 1998)<br />
<br />
''A Pregnant Moment'' (24 min., USA, 1999)<br />
<br />
''Restricted" (1 min., USA, 1999)<br />
<br />
''Drop'' (1 min., USA, 2000)<br />
<br />
''King of the Jews'' (18 min., USA, 2000)<br />
<br />
''Worm'' (2 min., USA, 2001)<br />
<br />
''Nine Lives - The Eternal Moment of Now'' (1 min., USA, 2001)<br />
<br />
''Prayer'' (3 min., USA, 2002)<br />
<br />
''Decidi'' (1 min., USA, 2002)<br />
<br />
''Friend Good'' (5 min., USA, 2003)<br />
<br />
''I Used to Be a Filmmaker'' (10 min., USA, 2003)<br />
<br />
''I Like It a Lot'' (4 min., USA, 2004)<br />
<br />
''I'm Charlie Chaplin'' (8 min., USA, 2005)<br />
<br />
''Phantom Limb'' (28 min., USA, 2005)<br />
<br />
''Afraid So'' (3 min., USA, 2006)<br />
<br />
''I Just Wanted to Be Somebody'' (10 min., USA, 2006)<br />
<br />
''Four Questions for a Rabbi'' (12 min., USA, 2008)<br />
<br />
''Beginning Filmmaking'' (23 min., USA, 2008)<br />
<br />
''The Darkness of Day'' (26 min., USA, 2009)<br />
<br />
''The D Train'' (5 min., USA, 2011)<br />
<br />
''Inquire Within'' (4 min., USA, 2012)<br />
<br />
''The Claustrum'' (15 min., USA, 2014)<br />
<br />
''A Long Walk From Home'' (3 min., USA, 2015)<br />
<br />
[[category:Film]] [[category:Famous characters]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:2000s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:Public Art]]</div>Paulgrammhttps://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Jay_Rosenblatt,_Filmmaker&diff=24026Jay Rosenblatt, Filmmaker2015-05-12T18:24:04Z<p>Paulgramm: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>'''<br />
<br />
''by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/jayrosenblattfilmmaker" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Jay Rosenblatt talks about his beginnings as a filmmaker.'''<br />
<br />
''Video by Paul Grammatico, videography by Diallo McLinn'' <br />
<br />
<br />
Jay Rosenblatt was born in 1955 in New York City. He migrated to San Francisco and became a filmmaker in 1980. He has completed over 25 films. He has been a film and video production instructor since 1989 at various film schools in the Bay Area, including Stanford University, San Francisco State University, and the San Francisco Art Institute. He has a Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology and, in a former life, worked as a therapist. His work explores our emotional and psychological cores. The films are personal in their content yet universal in their appeal.<br />
<br />
I first came across Rosenblatt’s films in an article on ''SF Gate'' which talked about the now defunct Fine Arts Theatre in Berkeley showing them. (The theatre was at the cross streets of Shattuck and Haste Street until June 30, 2002 when it closed and later was torn down. It is now a vegetarian restaurant.) I had never heard of Rosenblatt, as he was never discussed in my film classes at California College of the Arts. Intrigued, I decided to see his films and I was glad that I did as they had a profound effect on me. <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/humanremainsmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Human Remains'' (1998)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt'' <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
His films such as ''Human Remains'' and ''I Just Wanted to Be Somebody'' are short documentaries that show a different side of known persona, including Hitler, Stalin, Franco, Mussolini, and Mao’s personal habits are described in ''Human Remains'' and Anita Bryant's vociferous anti-gay stance is taken on in ''I Just Wanted to be Somebody''. <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/kingofthejewsmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''King of the Jews'' (2000)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt''<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
In films such as ''Phantom Limb'', ''King of the Jews'', ''The Smell of Burning Ants'', and ''The Darkness of Day'', Rosenblatt opens up to us about family, childhood trauma, and loss. I feel a sense of sadness and empathy for some of the issues he addresses in his films. There is no doubt that there is a catharsis contained in the frames of his films as he (and we) try to make sense of these feelings that we have in the past and how we can learn from them moving forward.<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/phantomlimbmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Phantom Limb'' (2009)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt''<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
I have watched a few of Rosenblatt's interviews, but one stood out to me. The interviewer brings up that Rosenblatt was a therapist in the mental health field and how this was so different than being a filmmaker. Seeing his work, I find him to effectively incorporate his work as a therapist into his films to show that he can display his feelings...and we are allowed to feel right along with him.<br />
<br />
Rosenblatt is a recipient of a Guggenheim, as well as USA Artists and a Rockefeller Fellowship. His films have received over 100 awards and have screened throughout the world. A selection had theatrical runs at the Film Forum in New York and at theaters around the country. Eight of his films have been at the Sundance Film Festival and several have shown on HBO/Cinemax, the Independent Film Channel and the Sundance Channel. Articles about his work have appeared in the Sunday ''New York Times'' "Arts & Leisure" section, the ''Los Angeles Times'', ''Filmmaker'' magazine, and the ''Village Voice''.<br />
<br />
To see the complete interview of Jay Rosenblatt, click [iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/jayrosenblattfilmmaker&playlist=1" width="640" height="580" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen/iframe here]<br />
<br />
[http://www.jayrosenblattfilms.com/ Get the complete films of Jay Rosenblatt.] <br />
<br />
<font size=4>Filmography</font><br />
<br />
''Doubt'' (11 min., USA, 1981)<br />
<br />
''Blood Test'' (27 min., USA, 1985)<br />
<br />
''Paris X 2'' (26 min., USA, 1988)<br />
<br />
''Brain in the Desert'' (5 min., USA, 1990)<br />
<br />
''Short Of Breath'' (10 min., USA, 1990)<br />
<br />
''The Smell of Burning Ants'' (21 min., USA, 1994)<br />
<br />
''Period Piece'' - Co-directed with Jennifer Frame (30 min., USA, 1996)<br />
<br />
''Human Remains'' (30 min., USA, 1998)<br />
<br />
''A Pregnant Moment'' (24 min., USA, 1999)<br />
<br />
''Restricted" (1 min., USA, 1999)<br />
<br />
''Drop'' (1 min., USA, 2000)<br />
<br />
''King of the Jews'' (18 min., USA, 2000)<br />
<br />
''Worm'' (2 min., USA, 2001)<br />
<br />
''Nine Lives - The Eternal Moment of Now'' (1 min., USA, 2001)<br />
<br />
''Prayer'' (3 min., USA, 2002)<br />
<br />
''Decidi'' (1 min., USA, 2002)<br />
<br />
''Friend Good'' (5 min., USA, 2003)<br />
<br />
''I Used to Be a Filmmaker'' (10 min., USA, 2003)<br />
<br />
''I Like It a Lot'' (4 min., USA, 2004)<br />
<br />
''I'm Charlie Chaplin'' (8 min., USA, 2005)<br />
<br />
''Phantom Limb'' (28 min., USA, 2005)<br />
<br />
''Afraid So'' (3 min., USA, 2006)<br />
<br />
''I Just Wanted to Be Somebody'' (10 min., USA, 2006)<br />
<br />
''Four Questions for a Rabbi'' (12 min., USA, 2008)<br />
<br />
''Beginning Filmmaking'' (23 min., USA, 2008)<br />
<br />
''The Darkness of Day'' (26 min., USA, 2009)<br />
<br />
''The D Train'' (5 min., USA, 2011)<br />
<br />
''Inquire Within'' (4 min., USA, 2012)<br />
<br />
''The Claustrum'' (15 min., USA, 2014)<br />
<br />
''A Long Walk From Home'' (3 min., USA, 2015)<br />
<br />
[[category:Film]] [[category:Famous characters]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:2000s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:Public Art]]</div>Paulgrammhttps://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Jay_Rosenblatt,_Filmmaker&diff=24025Jay Rosenblatt, Filmmaker2015-05-12T18:22:59Z<p>Paulgramm: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>'''<br />
<br />
''by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/jayrosenblattfilmmaker" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Jay Rosenblatt talks about his beginnings as a filmmaker.'''<br />
<br />
''Video by Paul Grammatico, videography by Diallo McLinn'' <br />
<br />
<br />
Jay Rosenblatt was born in 1955 in New York City. He migrated to San Francisco and became a filmmaker in 1980. He has completed over 25 films. He has been a film and video production instructor since 1989 at various film schools in the Bay Area, including Stanford University, San Francisco State University, and the San Francisco Art Institute. He has a Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology and, in a former life, worked as a therapist. His work explores our emotional and psychological cores. The films are personal in their content yet universal in their appeal.<br />
<br />
I first came across Rosenblatt’s films in an article on ''SF Gate'' which talked about the now defunct Fine Arts Theatre in Berkeley showing them. (The theatre was at the cross streets of Shattuck and Haste Street until June 30, 2002 when it closed and later was torn down. It is now a vegetarian restaurant.) I had never heard of Rosenblatt, as he was never discussed in my film classes at California College of the Arts. Intrigued, I decided to see his films and I was glad that I did as they had a profound effect on me. <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/humanremainsmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Human Remains'' (1998)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt'' <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
His films such as ''Human Remains'' and ''I Just Wanted to Be Somebody'' are short documentaries that show a different side of known persona, including Hitler, Stalin, Franco, Mussolini, and Mao’s personal habits are described in ''Human Remains'' and Anita Bryant's vociferous anti-gay stance is taken on in ''I Just Wanted to be Somebody''. <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/kingofthejewsmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''King of the Jews'' (2000)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt''<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
In films such as ''Phantom Limb'', ''King of the Jews'', ''The Smell of Burning Ants'', and ''The Darkness of Day'', Rosenblatt opens up to us about family, childhood trauma, and loss. I feel a sense of sadness and empathy for some of the issues he addresses in his films. There is no doubt that there is a catharsis contained in the frames of his films as he (and we) try to make sense of these feelings that we have in the past and how we can learn from them moving forward.<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/phantomlimbmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Phantom Limb'' (2009)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt''<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
I have watched a few of Rosenblatt's interviews, but one stood out to me. The interviewer brings up that Rosenblatt was a therapist in the mental health field and how this was so different than being a filmmaker. Seeing his work, I find him to effectively incorporate his work as a therapist into his films to show that he can display his feelings...and we are allowed to feel right along with him.<br />
<br />
Rosenblatt is a recipient of a Guggenheim, as well as USA Artists and a Rockefeller Fellowship. His films have received over 100 awards and have screened throughout the world. A selection had theatrical runs at the Film Forum in New York and at theaters around the country. Eight of his films have been at the Sundance Film Festival and several have shown on HBO/Cinemax, the Independent Film Channel and the Sundance Channel. Articles about his work have appeared in the Sunday ''New York Times'' "Arts & Leisure" section, the ''Los Angeles Times'', ''Filmmaker'' magazine, and the ''Village Voice''.<br />
<br />
To see the complete interview of Jay Rosenblatt, click [iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/jayrosenblattfilmmaker&playlist=1" width="640" height="580" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe here]<br />
<br />
[http://www.jayrosenblattfilms.com/ Get the complete films of Jay Rosenblatt.] <br />
<br />
<font size=4>Filmography</font><br />
<br />
''Doubt'' (11 min., USA, 1981)<br />
<br />
''Blood Test'' (27 min., USA, 1985)<br />
<br />
''Paris X 2'' (26 min., USA, 1988)<br />
<br />
''Brain in the Desert'' (5 min., USA, 1990)<br />
<br />
''Short Of Breath'' (10 min., USA, 1990)<br />
<br />
''The Smell of Burning Ants'' (21 min., USA, 1994)<br />
<br />
''Period Piece'' - Co-directed with Jennifer Frame (30 min., USA, 1996)<br />
<br />
''Human Remains'' (30 min., USA, 1998)<br />
<br />
''A Pregnant Moment'' (24 min., USA, 1999)<br />
<br />
''Restricted" (1 min., USA, 1999)<br />
<br />
''Drop'' (1 min., USA, 2000)<br />
<br />
''King of the Jews'' (18 min., USA, 2000)<br />
<br />
''Worm'' (2 min., USA, 2001)<br />
<br />
''Nine Lives - The Eternal Moment of Now'' (1 min., USA, 2001)<br />
<br />
''Prayer'' (3 min., USA, 2002)<br />
<br />
''Decidi'' (1 min., USA, 2002)<br />
<br />
''Friend Good'' (5 min., USA, 2003)<br />
<br />
''I Used to Be a Filmmaker'' (10 min., USA, 2003)<br />
<br />
''I Like It a Lot'' (4 min., USA, 2004)<br />
<br />
''I'm Charlie Chaplin'' (8 min., USA, 2005)<br />
<br />
''Phantom Limb'' (28 min., USA, 2005)<br />
<br />
''Afraid So'' (3 min., USA, 2006)<br />
<br />
''I Just Wanted to Be Somebody'' (10 min., USA, 2006)<br />
<br />
''Four Questions for a Rabbi'' (12 min., USA, 2008)<br />
<br />
''Beginning Filmmaking'' (23 min., USA, 2008)<br />
<br />
''The Darkness of Day'' (26 min., USA, 2009)<br />
<br />
''The D Train'' (5 min., USA, 2011)<br />
<br />
''Inquire Within'' (4 min., USA, 2012)<br />
<br />
''The Claustrum'' (15 min., USA, 2014)<br />
<br />
''A Long Walk From Home'' (3 min., USA, 2015)<br />
<br />
[[category:Film]] [[category:Famous characters]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:2000s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:Public Art]]</div>Paulgrammhttps://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Jay_Rosenblatt,_Filmmaker&diff=24024Jay Rosenblatt, Filmmaker2015-05-12T18:21:19Z<p>Paulgramm: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>'''<br />
<br />
''by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/jayrosenblattfilmmaker" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Jay Rosenblatt talks about his beginnings as a filmmaker.'''<br />
<br />
''Video by Paul Grammatico, videography by Diallo McLinn'' <br />
<br />
<br />
Jay Rosenblatt was born in 1955 in New York City. He migrated to San Francisco and became a filmmaker in 1980. He has completed over 25 films. He has been a film and video production instructor since 1989 at various film schools in the Bay Area, including Stanford University, San Francisco State University, and the San Francisco Art Institute. He has a Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology and, in a former life, worked as a therapist. His work explores our emotional and psychological cores. The films are personal in their content yet universal in their appeal.<br />
<br />
I first came across Rosenblatt’s films in an article on ''SF Gate'' which talked about the now defunct Fine Arts Theatre in Berkeley showing them. (The theatre was at the cross streets of Shattuck and Haste Street until June 30, 2002 when it closed and later was torn down. It is now a vegetarian restaurant.) I had never heard of Rosenblatt, as he was never discussed in my film classes at California College of the Arts. Intrigued, I decided to see his films and I was glad that I did as they had a profound effect on me. <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/humanremainsmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Human Remains'' (1998)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt'' <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
His films such as ''Human Remains'' and ''I Just Wanted to Be Somebody'' are short documentaries that show a different side of known persona, including Hitler, Stalin, Franco, Mussolini, and Mao’s personal habits are described in ''Human Remains'' and Anita Bryant's vociferous anti-gay stance is taken on in ''I Just Wanted to be Somebody''. <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/kingofthejewsmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''King of the Jews'' (2000)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt''<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
In films such as ''Phantom Limb'', ''King of the Jews'', ''The Smell of Burning Ants'', and ''The Darkness of Day'', Rosenblatt opens up to us about family, childhood trauma, and loss. I feel a sense of sadness and empathy for some of the issues he addresses in his films. There is no doubt that there is a catharsis contained in the frames of his films as he (and we) try to make sense of these feelings that we have in the past and how we can learn from them moving forward.<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/phantomlimbmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Phantom Limb'' (2009)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt''<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
I have watched a few of Rosenblatt's interviews, but one stood out to me. The interviewer brings up that Rosenblatt was a therapist in the mental health field and how this was so different than being a filmmaker. Seeing his work, I find him to effectively incorporate his work as a therapist into his films to show that he can display his feelings...and we are allowed to feel right along with him.<br />
<br />
Rosenblatt is a recipient of a Guggenheim, as well as USA Artists and a Rockefeller Fellowship. His films have received over 100 awards and have screened throughout the world. A selection had theatrical runs at the Film Forum in New York and at theaters around the country. Eight of his films have been at the Sundance Film Festival and several have shown on HBO/Cinemax, the Independent Film Channel and the Sundance Channel. Articles about his work have appeared in the Sunday ''New York Times'' "Arts & Leisure" section, the ''Los Angeles Times'', ''Filmmaker'' magazine, and the ''Village Voice''.<br />
<br />
To see the complete interview of Jay Rosenblatt, click [<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/jayrosenblattfilmmaker&playlist=1" width="640" height="580" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe>here]<br />
<br />
[http://www.jayrosenblattfilms.com/ Get the complete films of Jay Rosenblatt.] <br />
<br />
<font size=4>Filmography</font><br />
<br />
''Doubt'' (11 min., USA, 1981)<br />
<br />
''Blood Test'' (27 min., USA, 1985)<br />
<br />
''Paris X 2'' (26 min., USA, 1988)<br />
<br />
''Brain in the Desert'' (5 min., USA, 1990)<br />
<br />
''Short Of Breath'' (10 min., USA, 1990)<br />
<br />
''The Smell of Burning Ants'' (21 min., USA, 1994)<br />
<br />
''Period Piece'' - Co-directed with Jennifer Frame (30 min., USA, 1996)<br />
<br />
''Human Remains'' (30 min., USA, 1998)<br />
<br />
''A Pregnant Moment'' (24 min., USA, 1999)<br />
<br />
''Restricted" (1 min., USA, 1999)<br />
<br />
''Drop'' (1 min., USA, 2000)<br />
<br />
''King of the Jews'' (18 min., USA, 2000)<br />
<br />
''Worm'' (2 min., USA, 2001)<br />
<br />
''Nine Lives - The Eternal Moment of Now'' (1 min., USA, 2001)<br />
<br />
''Prayer'' (3 min., USA, 2002)<br />
<br />
''Decidi'' (1 min., USA, 2002)<br />
<br />
''Friend Good'' (5 min., USA, 2003)<br />
<br />
''I Used to Be a Filmmaker'' (10 min., USA, 2003)<br />
<br />
''I Like It a Lot'' (4 min., USA, 2004)<br />
<br />
''I'm Charlie Chaplin'' (8 min., USA, 2005)<br />
<br />
''Phantom Limb'' (28 min., USA, 2005)<br />
<br />
''Afraid So'' (3 min., USA, 2006)<br />
<br />
''I Just Wanted to Be Somebody'' (10 min., USA, 2006)<br />
<br />
''Four Questions for a Rabbi'' (12 min., USA, 2008)<br />
<br />
''Beginning Filmmaking'' (23 min., USA, 2008)<br />
<br />
''The Darkness of Day'' (26 min., USA, 2009)<br />
<br />
''The D Train'' (5 min., USA, 2011)<br />
<br />
''Inquire Within'' (4 min., USA, 2012)<br />
<br />
''The Claustrum'' (15 min., USA, 2014)<br />
<br />
''A Long Walk From Home'' (3 min., USA, 2015)<br />
<br />
[[category:Film]] [[category:Famous characters]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:2000s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:Public Art]]</div>Paulgrammhttps://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Jay_Rosenblatt,_Filmmaker&diff=24023Jay Rosenblatt, Filmmaker2015-05-12T18:19:24Z<p>Paulgramm: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>'''<br />
<br />
''by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/jayrosenblattfilmmaker" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Jay Rosenblatt talks about his beginnings as a filmmaker.'''<br />
<br />
''Video by Paul Grammatico, videography by Diallo McLinn'' <br />
<br />
<br />
Jay Rosenblatt was born in 1955 in New York City. He migrated to San Francisco and became a filmmaker in 1980. He has completed over 25 films. He has been a film and video production instructor since 1989 at various film schools in the Bay Area, including Stanford University, San Francisco State University, and the San Francisco Art Institute. He has a Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology and, in a former life, worked as a therapist. His work explores our emotional and psychological cores. The films are personal in their content yet universal in their appeal.<br />
<br />
I first came across Rosenblatt’s films in an article on ''SF Gate'' which talked about the now defunct Fine Arts Theatre in Berkeley showing them. (The theatre was at the cross streets of Shattuck and Haste Street until June 30, 2002 when it closed and later was torn down. It is now a vegetarian restaurant.) I had never heard of Rosenblatt, as he was never discussed in my film classes at California College of the Arts. Intrigued, I decided to see his films and I was glad that I did as they had a profound effect on me. <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/humanremainsmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Human Remains'' (1998)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt'' <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
His films such as ''Human Remains'' and ''I Just Wanted to Be Somebody'' are short documentaries that show a different side of known persona, including Hitler, Stalin, Franco, Mussolini, and Mao’s personal habits are described in ''Human Remains'' and Anita Bryant's vociferous anti-gay stance is taken on in ''I Just Wanted to be Somebody''. <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/kingofthejewsmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''King of the Jews'' (2000)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt''<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
In films such as ''Phantom Limb'', ''King of the Jews'', ''The Smell of Burning Ants'', and ''The Darkness of Day'', Rosenblatt opens up to us about family, childhood trauma, and loss. I feel a sense of sadness and empathy for some of the issues he addresses in his films. There is no doubt that there is a catharsis contained in the frames of his films as he (and we) try to make sense of these feelings that we have in the past and how we can learn from them moving forward.<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/phantomlimbmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Phantom Limb'' (2009)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt''<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
I have watched a few of Rosenblatt's interviews, but one stood out to me. The interviewer brings up that Rosenblatt was a therapist in the mental health field and how this was so different than being a filmmaker. Seeing his work, I find him to effectively incorporate his work as a therapist into his films to show that he can display his feelings...and we are allowed to feel right along with him.<br />
<br />
Rosenblatt is a recipient of a Guggenheim, as well as USA Artists and a Rockefeller Fellowship. His films have received over 100 awards and have screened throughout the world. A selection had theatrical runs at the Film Forum in New York and at theaters around the country. Eight of his films have been at the Sundance Film Festival and several have shown on HBO/Cinemax, the Independent Film Channel and the Sundance Channel. Articles about his work have appeared in the Sunday ''New York Times'' "Arts & Leisure" section, the ''Los Angeles Times'', ''Filmmaker'' magazine, and the ''Village Voice''.<br />
<br />
To see the complete interview of Jay Rosenblatt, click [[<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/jayrosenblattfilmmaker&playlist=1" width="640" height="580" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe>here]]<br />
<br />
[http://www.jayrosenblattfilms.com/ Get the complete films of Jay Rosenblatt.] <br />
<br />
<font size=4>Filmography</font><br />
<br />
''Doubt'' (11 min., USA, 1981)<br />
<br />
''Blood Test'' (27 min., USA, 1985)<br />
<br />
''Paris X 2'' (26 min., USA, 1988)<br />
<br />
''Brain in the Desert'' (5 min., USA, 1990)<br />
<br />
''Short Of Breath'' (10 min., USA, 1990)<br />
<br />
''The Smell of Burning Ants'' (21 min., USA, 1994)<br />
<br />
''Period Piece'' - Co-directed with Jennifer Frame (30 min., USA, 1996)<br />
<br />
''Human Remains'' (30 min., USA, 1998)<br />
<br />
''A Pregnant Moment'' (24 min., USA, 1999)<br />
<br />
''Restricted" (1 min., USA, 1999)<br />
<br />
''Drop'' (1 min., USA, 2000)<br />
<br />
''King of the Jews'' (18 min., USA, 2000)<br />
<br />
''Worm'' (2 min., USA, 2001)<br />
<br />
''Nine Lives - The Eternal Moment of Now'' (1 min., USA, 2001)<br />
<br />
''Prayer'' (3 min., USA, 2002)<br />
<br />
''Decidi'' (1 min., USA, 2002)<br />
<br />
''Friend Good'' (5 min., USA, 2003)<br />
<br />
''I Used to Be a Filmmaker'' (10 min., USA, 2003)<br />
<br />
''I Like It a Lot'' (4 min., USA, 2004)<br />
<br />
''I'm Charlie Chaplin'' (8 min., USA, 2005)<br />
<br />
''Phantom Limb'' (28 min., USA, 2005)<br />
<br />
''Afraid So'' (3 min., USA, 2006)<br />
<br />
''I Just Wanted to Be Somebody'' (10 min., USA, 2006)<br />
<br />
''Four Questions for a Rabbi'' (12 min., USA, 2008)<br />
<br />
''Beginning Filmmaking'' (23 min., USA, 2008)<br />
<br />
''The Darkness of Day'' (26 min., USA, 2009)<br />
<br />
''The D Train'' (5 min., USA, 2011)<br />
<br />
''Inquire Within'' (4 min., USA, 2012)<br />
<br />
''The Claustrum'' (15 min., USA, 2014)<br />
<br />
''A Long Walk From Home'' (3 min., USA, 2015)<br />
<br />
[[category:Film]] [[category:Famous characters]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:2000s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:Public Art]]</div>Paulgrammhttps://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Greta_Snider,_Experimental_Filmmaker&diff=24008Greta Snider, Experimental Filmmaker2015-04-24T20:48:52Z<p>Paulgramm: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>'''<br />
<br />
''by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/gretasniderexperimentalfilmmaker&playlist=1" width="640" height="580" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
''Video by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
Greta Snider is an experimental filmmaker. Her earlier work on 16mm includes a collection of audio and visual experiences that combines photography, found footage, and her own experiences of the San Francisco punk scene in the early 1990s. Her work includes experiments with simultaneous soundtracks (Blood Story, 1990), engaging personal accounts of a scraped-together journey with friends (Portland, 1996), and an audio travelogue of the San Francisco punk scene. Greta Snider's more recent work includes, in collaboration with Johunna Grayson, a series of slide show projections comprised of hand-processed photographs and stereoscopic images. The series is described as an update on the ‘campy Viewmaster format’, riffing on the concept of the travelogue to present the unseen and underground aspects. Subjects range from forgotten aspects of the everyday (“old man bars”, flowers, parts of the body) to the extreme (a Viewmaster series of atomic test blasts). Snider’s films explore the importance of small memories, retrieving pieces of ephemera from the underground and re-presenting them on screen.1 She is currently a tenured Professor at San Francisco State University. <br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/bloodstoryfilmclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Blood Story'' (1990)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/portlandflimclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Portland'' (1996)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
I had the pleasure of having Greta Snider as a teacher at California College of Arts and Crafts (now simply California College of the Arts). She is a fantastic teacher and I was able to view works such as ''Portland'' and other works such as ''Hard Core Home Movie'' and ''Our Gay Brothers''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/hardcorehomemovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Hard Core Home Movie'' (1989)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/ourgaybrothersfilmclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Our Gay Brothers'' (1993)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
Doing research on the films of Greta's, I found that she is the queen of all trades and mistress of all. I say this because her works touch on various aesthetics. From the gritty DIY films of ''Hard Core Home Movie'' and ''Portland'', to found footage collage in the films of ''Futility'' (1989) and ''Our Gay Brothers'', to documentaries such as ''Urine Man'' (2000), to a touching homage to her father in ''Flight'' (1997).<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/flightfilmclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Flight'' (1997)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
In the interview, I asked Greta about gender behind the camera. She replied, "Can you tell if the person shooting or directing the film is male or female...I would say no." In the case of Greta Snider's work, I would say that this is a true statement as I believe that her work doesn't identify gender. Her work is honest, gritty, edgy, and visually stunning. It has no conditions or boundaries and that's as it should be.<br />
<br />
To know more about Greta Snider, please click [http://www.heatsignature.com/greta.html here] <br />
<br />
To view complete versions of her work, please click [https://vimeo.com/user12288191 here]<br />
<br />
<font size=4>Filmography</font><br />
<br />
''The Magic of Radio'' (23 min., USA, 2001)<br />
<br />
''Urine Man'' (5 min., USA, 2000)<br />
<br />
''Quarry Movie'' (10 min., USA, 1999)<br />
<br />
''Flight'' (5 min., USA, 1997)<br />
<br />
''Portland'' (15 min., USA, 1996)<br />
<br />
''NoZone'' (18 min., USA 1993)<br />
<br />
''Our Gay Brothers'' (9 min., USA 1993)<br />
<br />
''Mute'' (15 min., USA 1991)<br />
<br />
''Blood Story'' (3 min., USA 1990)<br />
<br />
''Futility (10 min., USA 1989)<br />
<br />
''Hard Core Home Movie'' (5 min., USA 1989)<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
1 Retrieved from http://cinema.sfsu.edu/people/faculty/greta-snider<br />
<br />
<br />
[[category:film]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:1980s]] [[category:2000s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:famous characters]]</div>Paulgrammhttps://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Greta_Snider,_Experimental_Filmmaker&diff=24007Greta Snider, Experimental Filmmaker2015-04-24T20:47:31Z<p>Paulgramm: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>'''<br />
<br />
''by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/gretasniderexperimentalfilmmaker&playlist=1" width="640" height="580" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
''Video by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
Greta Snider is an experimental filmmaker. Her earlier work on 16mm includes a collection of audio and visual experiences that combines photography, found footage, and her own experiences of the San Francisco punk scene in the early 1990s. Her work includes experiments with simultaneous soundtracks (Blood Story, 1990), engaging personal accounts of a scraped-together journey with friends (Portland, 1996), and an audio travelogue of the San Francisco punk scene. Greta Snider's more recent work includes, in collaboration with Johunna Grayson, a series of slide show projections comprised of hand-processed photographs and stereoscopic images. The series is described as an update on the ‘campy Viewmaster format’, riffing on the concept of the travelogue to present the unseen and underground aspects. Subjects range from forgotten aspects of the everyday (“old man bars”, flowers, parts of the body) to the extreme (a Viewmaster series of atomic test blasts). Snider’s films explore the importance of small memories, retrieving pieces of ephemera from the underground and re-presenting them on screen.1 She is currently a tenured Professor at San Francisco State University. <br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/bloodstoryfilmclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Blood Story'' (1990)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/portlandflimclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Portland'' (1996)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
I had the pleasure of having Greta Snider as a teacher at California College of Arts and Crafts (now simply California College of the Arts). She is a fantastic teacher and I was able to view works such as ''Portland'' and other works such as ''Hard Core Home Movie'' and ''Our Gay Brothers''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/hardcorehomemovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Hard Core Home Movie'' (1989)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/ourgaybrothersfilmclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Our Gay Brothers'' (1993)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
Doing research on the films of Greta's, I found that she is the queen of all trades and mistress of all. I say this because her works touch on various aesthetics. From the gritty DIY films of ''Hard Core Home Movie'' and ''Portland'', to found footage collage in the films of ''Futility'' (1989) and ''Our Gay Brothers'', to documentaries such as ''Urine Man'' (2000), to a touching homage to her father in ''Flight'' (1997).<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/flightfilmclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Flight'' (1997)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
In the interview, I asked Greta about gender behind the camera. She replied, "Can you tell if the person shooting or directing the film is male or female...I would say no." In the case of Greta Snider's work, I would say that this is a very true statement as I believe that her work doesn't identify gender. Her work is honest, gritty, edgy, and visually stunning. It has no conditions or boundaries and that's as it should be.<br />
<br />
To know more about Greta Snider, please click [http://www.heatsignature.com/greta.html here] <br />
<br />
To view complete versions of her work, please click [https://vimeo.com/user12288191 here]<br />
<br />
<font size=4>Filmography</font><br />
<br />
''The Magic of Radio'' (23 min., USA, 2001)<br />
<br />
''Urine Man'' (5 min., USA, 2000)<br />
<br />
''Quarry Movie'' (10 min., USA, 1999)<br />
<br />
''Flight'' (5 min., USA, 1997)<br />
<br />
''Portland'' (15 min., USA, 1996)<br />
<br />
''NoZone'' (18 min., USA 1993)<br />
<br />
''Our Gay Brothers'' (9 min., USA 1993)<br />
<br />
''Mute'' (15 min., USA 1991)<br />
<br />
''Blood Story'' (3 min., USA 1990)<br />
<br />
''Futility (10 min., USA 1989)<br />
<br />
''Hard Core Home Movie'' (5 min., USA 1989)<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
1 Retrieved from http://cinema.sfsu.edu/people/faculty/greta-snider<br />
<br />
<br />
[[category:film]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:1980s]] [[category:2000s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:famous characters]]</div>Paulgrammhttps://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Greta_Snider,_Experimental_Filmmaker&diff=24006Greta Snider, Experimental Filmmaker2015-04-24T20:46:20Z<p>Paulgramm: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>'''<br />
<br />
''by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/gretasniderexperimentalfilmmaker&playlist=1" width="640" height="580" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
''Video by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
Greta Snider is an experimental filmmaker. Her earlier work on 16mm includes a collection of audio and visual experiences that combines photography, found footage, and her own experiences of the San Francisco punk scene in the early 1990s. Her work includes experiments with simultaneous soundtracks (Blood Story, 1990), engaging personal accounts of a scraped-together journey with friends (Portland, 1996), and an audio travelogue of the San Francisco punk scene. Greta Snider's more recent work includes, in collaboration with Johunna Grayson, a series of slide show projections comprised of hand-processed photographs and stereoscopic images. The series is described as an update on the ‘campy Viewmaster format’, riffing on the concept of the travelogue to present the unseen and underground aspects. Subjects range from forgotten aspects of the everyday (“old man bars”, flowers, parts of the body) to the extreme (a Viewmaster series of atomic test blasts). Snider’s films explore the importance of small memories, retrieving pieces of ephemera from the underground and re-presenting them on screen.1 She is currently a tenured Professor at San Francisco State University. <br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/bloodstoryfilmclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Blood Story'' (1990)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/portlandflimclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Portland'' (1996)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
I had the pleasure of having Greta Snider as a teacher at California College of Arts and Crafts (now simply California College of the Arts). She is a fantastic teacher and I was able to view works such as ''Portland'' and other works such as ''Hard Core Home Movie'' and ''Our Gay Brothers''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/hardcorehomemovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Hard Core Home Movie'' (1989)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/ourgaybrothersfilmclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Our Gay Brothers'' (1993)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
Doing research on the films of Greta's, I found that she is the queen of all trades and mistress of all. I say this because her works touch on various aesthetics. From the gritty DIY films of ''Hard Core Home Movie'' and ''Portland'', to found footage collage in the films of ''Futility''(1989) and ''Our Gay Brothers'', to documentaries such as ''Urine Man'' (2000), to a touching homage to her father in ''Flight''(1997).<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/flightfilmclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Flight'' (1997)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
In the interview, I asked Greta about gender behind the camera. She replied, "Can you tell if the person shooting or directing the film is male or female...I would say no." In the case of Greta Snider's work, I would say that this is a very true statement as I believe that her work doesn't identify gender. Her work is honest, gritty, edgy, and visually stunning. It has no conditions or boundaries and that's as it should be.<br />
<br />
To know more about Greta Snider, please click [http://www.heatsignature.com/greta.html here] <br />
<br />
To view complete versions of her work, please click [https://vimeo.com/user12288191 here]<br />
<br />
<font size=4>Filmography</font><br />
<br />
''The Magic of Radio'' (23 min., USA, 2001)<br />
<br />
''Urine Man'' (5 min., USA, 2000)<br />
<br />
''Quarry Movie'' (10 min., USA, 1999)<br />
<br />
''Flight'' (5 min., USA, 1997)<br />
<br />
''Portland'' (15 min., USA, 1996)<br />
<br />
''NoZone'' (18 min., USA 1993)<br />
<br />
''Our Gay Brothers'' (9 min., USA 1993)<br />
<br />
''Mute'' (15 min., USA 1991)<br />
<br />
''Blood Story'' (3 min., USA 1990)<br />
<br />
''Futility (10 min., USA 1989)<br />
<br />
''Hard Core Home Movie'' (5 min., USA 1989)<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
1 Retrieved from http://cinema.sfsu.edu/people/faculty/greta-snider<br />
<br />
<br />
[[category:film]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:1980s]] [[category:2000s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:famous characters]]</div>Paulgrammhttps://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Greta_Snider,_Experimental_Filmmaker&diff=24005Greta Snider, Experimental Filmmaker2015-04-24T20:45:35Z<p>Paulgramm: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>'''<br />
<br />
''by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/gretasniderexperimentalfilmmaker&playlist=1" width="640" height="580" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
''Video by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
Greta Snider is an experimental filmmaker. Her earlier work on 16mm includes a collection of audio and visual experiences that combines photography, found footage, and her own experiences of the San Francisco punk scene in the early 1990s. Her work includes experiments with simultaneous soundtracks (Blood Story, 1990), engaging personal accounts of a scraped-together journey with friends (Portland, 1996), and an audio travelogue of the San Francisco punk scene. Greta Snider's more recent work includes, in collaboration with Johunna Grayson, a series of slide show projections comprised of hand-processed photographs and stereoscopic images. The series is described as an update on the ‘campy Viewmaster format’, riffing on the concept of the travelogue to present the unseen and underground aspects. Subjects range from forgotten aspects of the everyday (“old man bars”, flowers, parts of the body) to the extreme (a Viewmaster series of atomic test blasts). Snider’s films explore the importance of small memories, retrieving pieces of ephemera from the underground and re-presenting them on screen.1 She is currently a tenured Professor at San Francisco State University. <br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/bloodstoryfilmclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Blood Story'' (1990)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/portlandflimclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Portland'' (1996)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
I had the pleasure of having Greta Snider as a teacher at California College of Arts and Crafts (now simply California College of the Arts). She is a fantastic teacher and I was able to view works such as ''Portland'' and other works such as ''Hard Core Home Movie''and ''Our Gay Brothers''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/hardcorehomemovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Hard Core Home Movie'' (1989)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/ourgaybrothersfilmclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Our Gay Brothers'' (1993)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
Doing research on the films of Greta's, I found that she is the queen of all trades and mistress of all. I say this because her works touch on various aesthetics. From the gritty DIY films of ''Hard Core Home Movie'' and ''Portland'', to found footage collage in the films of ''Futility''(1989) and ''Our Gay Brothers'', to documentaries such as ''Urine Man'' (2000), to a touching homage to her father in ''Flight''(1997).<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/flightfilmclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Flight'' (1997)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
In the interview, I asked Greta about gender behind the camera. She replied, "Can you tell if the person shooting or directing the film is male or female...I would say no." In the case of Greta Snider's work, I would say that this is a very true statement as I believe that her work doesn't identify gender. Her work is honest, gritty, edgy, and visually stunning. It has no conditions or boundaries and that's as it should be.<br />
<br />
To know more about Greta Snider, please click [http://www.heatsignature.com/greta.html here] <br />
<br />
To view complete versions of her work, please click [https://vimeo.com/user12288191 here]<br />
<br />
<font size=4>Filmography</font><br />
<br />
''The Magic of Radio'' (23 min., USA, 2001)<br />
<br />
''Urine Man'' (5 min., USA, 2000)<br />
<br />
''Quarry Movie'' (10 min., USA, 1999)<br />
<br />
''Flight'' (5 min., USA, 1997)<br />
<br />
''Portland'' (15 min., USA, 1996)<br />
<br />
''NoZone'' (18 min., USA 1993)<br />
<br />
''Our Gay Brothers'' (9 min., USA 1993)<br />
<br />
''Mute'' (15 min., USA 1991)<br />
<br />
''Blood Story'' (3 min., USA 1990)<br />
<br />
''Futility (10 min., USA 1989)<br />
<br />
''Hard Core Home Movie'' (5 min., USA 1989)<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
1 Retrieved from http://cinema.sfsu.edu/people/faculty/greta-snider<br />
<br />
<br />
[[category:film]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:1980s]] [[category:2000s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:famous characters]]</div>Paulgrammhttps://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Jay_Rosenblatt,_Filmmaker&diff=24004Jay Rosenblatt, Filmmaker2015-04-24T20:44:19Z<p>Paulgramm: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>'''<br />
<br />
''by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/jayrosenblattfilmmaker&playlist=1" width="640" height="580" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Jay Rosenblatt talks about his beginnings as a filmmaker.'''<br />
<br />
''Video by Paul Grammatico, videography by Diallo McLinn'' <br />
<br />
<br />
Jay Rosenblatt was born in 1955 in New York City. He migrated to San Francisco and became a filmmaker in 1980. He has completed over 25 films. He has been a film and video production instructor since 1989 at various film schools in the Bay Area, including Stanford University, San Francisco State University, and the San Francisco Art Institute. He has a Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology and, in a former life, worked as a therapist. His work explores our emotional and psychological cores. The films are personal in their content yet universal in their appeal.<br />
<br />
I first came across Rosenblatt’s films in an article on ''SF Gate'' which talked about the now defunct Fine Arts Theatre in Berkeley showing them. (The theatre was at the cross streets of Shattuck and Haste Street until June 30, 2002 when it closed and later was torn down. It is now a vegetarian restaurant.) I had never heard of Rosenblatt, as he was never discussed in my film classes at California College of the Arts. Intrigued, I decided to see his films and I was glad that I did as they had a profound effect on me. <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/humanremainsmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Human Remains'' (1998)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt'' <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
His films such as ''Human Remains'' and ''I Just Wanted to Be Somebody'' are short documentaries that show a different side of known persona, including Hitler, Stalin, Franco, Mussolini, and Mao’s personal habits are described in ''Human Remains'' and Anita Bryant's vociferous anti-gay stance is taken on in ''I Just Wanted to be Somebody''. <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/kingofthejewsmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''King of the Jews'' (2000)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt''<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
In films such as ''Phantom Limb'', ''King of the Jews'', ''The Smell of Burning Ants'', and ''The Darkness of Day'', Rosenblatt opens up to us about family, childhood trauma, and loss. I feel a sense of sadness and empathy for some of the issues he addresses in his films. There is no doubt that there is a catharsis contained in the frames of his films as he (and we) try to make sense of these feelings that we have in the past and how we can learn from them moving forward.<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/phantomlimbmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Phantom Limb'' (2009)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt''<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
I have watched a few of Rosenblatt's interviews, but one stood out to me. The interviewer brings up that Rosenblatt was a therapist in the mental health field and how this was so different than being a filmmaker. Seeing his work, I find him to effectively incorporate his work as a therapist into his films to show that he can display his feelings...and we are allowed to feel right along with him.<br />
<br />
Rosenblatt is a recipient of a Guggenheim, as well as USA Artists and a Rockefeller Fellowship. His films have received over 100 awards and have screened throughout the world. A selection had theatrical runs at the Film Forum in New York and at theaters around the country. Eight of his films have been at the Sundance Film Festival and several have shown on HBO/Cinemax, the Independent Film Channel and the Sundance Channel. Articles about his work have appeared in the Sunday ''New York Times'' "Arts & Leisure" section, the ''Los Angeles Times'', ''Filmmaker'' magazine, and the ''Village Voice''.<br />
<br />
[http://www.jayrosenblattfilms.com/ Get the complete films of Jay Rosenblatt.] <br />
<br />
<font size=4>Filmography</font><br />
<br />
''Doubt'' (11 min., USA, 1981)<br />
<br />
''Blood Test'' (27 min., USA, 1985)<br />
<br />
''Paris X 2'' (26 min., USA, 1988)<br />
<br />
''Brain in the Desert'' (5 min., USA, 1990)<br />
<br />
''Short Of Breath'' (10 min., USA, 1990)<br />
<br />
''The Smell of Burning Ants'' (21 min., USA, 1994)<br />
<br />
''Period Piece'' - Co-directed with Jennifer Frame (30 min., USA, 1996)<br />
<br />
''Human Remains'' (30 min., USA, 1998)<br />
<br />
''A Pregnant Moment'' (24 min., USA, 1999)<br />
<br />
''Restricted" (1 min., USA, 1999)<br />
<br />
''Drop'' (1 min., USA, 2000)<br />
<br />
''King of the Jews'' (18 min., USA, 2000)<br />
<br />
''Worm'' (2 min., USA, 2001)<br />
<br />
''Nine Lives - The Eternal Moment of Now'' (1 min., USA, 2001)<br />
<br />
''Prayer'' (3 min., USA, 2002)<br />
<br />
''Decidi'' (1 min., USA, 2002)<br />
<br />
''Friend Good'' (5 min., USA, 2003)<br />
<br />
''I Used to Be a Filmmaker'' (10 min., USA, 2003)<br />
<br />
''I Like It a Lot'' (4 min., USA, 2004)<br />
<br />
''I'm Charlie Chaplin'' (8 min., USA, 2005)<br />
<br />
''Phantom Limb'' (28 min., USA, 2005)<br />
<br />
''Afraid So'' (3 min., USA, 2006)<br />
<br />
''I Just Wanted to Be Somebody'' (10 min., USA, 2006)<br />
<br />
''Four Questions for a Rabbi'' (12 min., USA, 2008)<br />
<br />
''Beginning Filmmaking'' (23 min., USA, 2008)<br />
<br />
''The Darkness of Day'' (26 min., USA, 2009)<br />
<br />
''The D Train'' (5 min., USA, 2011)<br />
<br />
''Inquire Within'' (4 min., USA, 2012)<br />
<br />
''The Claustrum'' (15 min., USA, 2014)<br />
<br />
''A Long Walk From Home'' (3 min., USA, 2015)<br />
<br />
[[category:Film]] [[category:Famous characters]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:2000s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:Public Art]]</div>Paulgrammhttps://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Jay_Rosenblatt,_Filmmaker&diff=24003Jay Rosenblatt, Filmmaker2015-04-24T20:42:37Z<p>Paulgramm: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>'''<br />
<br />
''by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/jayrosenblattfilmmaker&playlist=1" width="640" height="580" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Jay Rosenblatt talks about his beginnings as a filmmaker.'''<br />
<br />
''Video by Paul Grammatico, videography by Diallo McLinn'' <br />
<br />
<br />
Jay Rosenblatt was born in 1955 in New York City. He migrated to San Francisco and became a filmmaker in 1980. He has completed over 25 films. He has been a film and video production instructor since 1989 at various film schools in the Bay Area, including Stanford University, San Francisco State University, and the San Francisco Art Institute. He has a Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology and, in a former life, worked as a therapist. His work explores our emotional and psychological cores. The films are personal in their content yet universal in their appeal.<br />
<br />
I first came across Rosenblatt’s films in an article on ''SF Gate'' which talked about the now defunct Fine Arts Theatre in Berkeley showing them. (The theatre was at the cross streets of Shattuck and Haste Street until June 30, 2002 when it closed and later was torn down. It is now a vegetarian restaurant.) I had never heard of Rosenblatt, as he was never discussed in my film classes at California College of the Arts. Intrigued, I decided to see his films and I was glad that I did as they had a profound effect on me. <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/humanremainsmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Human Remains'' (1998)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt'' <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
His films such as ''Human Remains'' and ''I Just Wanted to Be Somebody'' are short documentaries that show a different side of known persona, including Hitler, Stalin, Franco, Mussolini, and Mao’s personal habits are described in ''Human Remains'' and Anita Bryant's vociferous anti-gay stance is taken on in ''I Just Wanted to be Somebody''. <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/kingofthejewsmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''King of the Jews'' (2000)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt''<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
In films such as ''Phantom Limb'', ''King of the Jews'', ''The Smell of Burning Ants'', and ''The Darkness of Day'', Rosenblatt opens up to us about family, childhood trauma, and loss. I feel a sense of sadness and empathy for some of the issues he addresses in his films. There is no doubt that there is a catharsis contained in the frames of his films as he (and we) try to make sense of these feelings that we have in the past and how we can learn from them moving forward.<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/phantomlimbmovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Phantom Limb'' (2009)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Jay Rosenblatt''<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
I have watched a few of Rosenblatt's interviews, but one stood out to me. The interviewer brings up that Rosenblatt was a therapist in the mental health field and how this was so different than being a filmmaker. Seeing his work, I find him to effectively incorporate his work as a therapist into his films to show that he can display his feelings...and we are allowed to feel right along with him.<br />
<br />
Rosenblatt is a recipient of a Guggenheim, as well as USA Artists and a Rockefeller Fellowship. His films have received over 100 awards and have screened throughout the world. A selection had theatrical runs at the Film Forum in New York and at theaters around the country. Eight of his films have been at the Sundance Film Festival and several have shown on HBO/Cinemax, the Independent Film Channel and the Sundance Channel. Articles about his work have appeared in the Sunday ''New York Times'' "Arts & Leisure" section, the ''Los Angeles Times'', ''Filmmaker'' magazine, and the ''Village Voice''.<br />
<br />
[http://www.jayrosenblattfilms.com/ Get the complete films of Jay Rosenblatt.] <br />
<br />
<font size=4>Filmography</font><br />
<br />
''Doubt'' (11 min., USA, 1981)<br />
<br />
''Blood Test'' (27 min., USA, 1985)<br />
<br />
''Paris X 2'' (26 min., USA, 1988)<br />
<br />
''Brain in the Desert'' (5 min., USA, 1990)<br />
<br />
''Short Of Breath'' (10 min., USA, 1990)<br />
<br />
''The Smell of Burning Ants'' (21 min., USA, 1994)<br />
<br />
''Period Piece'' - Co-directed with Jennifer Frame (30 min., USA, 1996)<br />
<br />
''Human Remains'' (30 min., USA, 1998)<br />
<br />
''A Pregnant Moment'' (24 min., USA, 1999)<br />
<br />
''Restricted" (1 min., USA, 1999)<br />
<br />
''Drop'' (1 min., USA, 2000)<br />
<br />
''King of the Jews'' (18 min., USA, 2000)<br />
<br />
''Worm'' (2 min., USA, 2001)<br />
<br />
''Nine Lives - The Eternal Moment of Now'' (1 min., USA, 2001)<br />
<br />
''Prayer'' (3 min., USA, 2002)<br />
<br />
''Decidi'' (1 min., USA, 2002)<br />
<br />
''Friend Good'' (5 min., USA, 2003)<br />
<br />
''I Used to Be a Filmmaker'' (10 min., USA, 2003)<br />
<br />
''I Like It a Lot'' (4 min., USA, 2004)<br />
<br />
''I'm Charlie Chaplin'' (8 min., USA, 2005)<br />
<br />
''Phantom Limb'' (28 min., USA, 2005)<br />
<br />
''Afraid So'' (3 min., USA, 2006)<br />
<br />
''I Just Wanted to Be Somebody'' (10 min., USA, 2006)<br />
<br />
''Four Questions for a Rabbi'' (12 min., USA, 2008)<br />
<br />
''Beginning Filmmaking'' (23 min., USA, 2008)<br />
<br />
''The Darkness of Day'' (26 min., USA, 2009)<br />
<br />
''The D Train'' (5 min., USA, 2011)<br />
<br />
''Inquire Within'' (4 min., USA, 2012)<br />
<br />
''The Claustrum'' (15 min., USA, 2014)<br />
<br />
[[category:Film]] [[category:Famous characters]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:2000s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:Public Art]]</div>Paulgrammhttps://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Greta_Snider,_Experimental_Filmmaker&diff=24002Greta Snider, Experimental Filmmaker2015-04-24T20:38:45Z<p>Paulgramm: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>'''<br />
<br />
''by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/gretasniderexperimentalfilmmaker&playlist=1" width="640" height="580" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
''Video by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
Greta Snider is an experimental filmmaker. Her earlier work on 16mm includes a collection of audio and visual experiences that combines photography, found footage, and her own experiences of the San Francisco punk scene in the early 1990s. Her work includes experiments with simultaneous soundtracks (Blood Story, 1990), engaging personal accounts of a scraped-together journey with friends (Portland, 1996), and an audio travelogue of the San Francisco punk scene. Greta Snider's more recent work includes, in collaboration with Johunna Grayson, a series of slide show projections comprised of hand-processed photographs and stereoscopic images. The series is described as an update on the ‘campy Viewmaster format’, riffing on the concept of the travelogue to present the unseen and underground aspects. Subjects range from forgotten aspects of the everyday (“old man bars”, flowers, parts of the body) to the extreme (a Viewmaster series of atomic test blasts). Snider’s films explore the importance of small memories, retrieving pieces of ephemera from the underground and re-presenting them on screen.1 She is currently a tenured Professor at San Francisco State University. <br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/bloodstoryfilmclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Blood Story'' (1990)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/portlandflimclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Portland'' (1996)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
I had the pleasure of having Greta Snider as a teacher at California College of Arts and Crafts (now simply California College of the Arts). She is a fantastic teacher and I was able to view works such as ''Portland''and also works such as ''Hard Core Home Movie''and ''Our Gay Brothers''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/hardcorehomemovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Hard Core Home Movie'' (1989)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/ourgaybrothersfilmclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Our Gay Brothers'' (1993)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
Doing research on the films of Greta's, I found that she is the queen of all trades and mistress of all. I say this because her works touch on various aesthetics. From the gritty DIY films of ''Hard Core Home Movie'' and ''Portland'', to found footage collage in the films of ''Futility''(1989) and ''Our Gay Brothers'', to documentaries such as ''Urine Man'' (2000), to a touching homage to her father in ''Flight''(1997).<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/flightfilmclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Flight'' (1997)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
In the interview, I asked Greta about gender behind the camera. She replied, "Can you tell if the person shooting or directing the film is male or female...I would say no." In the case of Greta Snider's work, I would say that this is a very true statement as I believe that her work doesn't identify gender. Her work is honest, gritty, edgy, and visually stunning. It has no conditions or boundaries and that's as it should be.<br />
<br />
To know more about Greta Snider, please click [http://www.heatsignature.com/greta.html here] <br />
<br />
To view complete versions of her work, please click [https://vimeo.com/user12288191 here]<br />
<br />
<font size=4>Filmography</font><br />
<br />
''The Magic of Radio'' (23 min., USA, 2001)<br />
<br />
''Urine Man'' (5 min., USA, 2000)<br />
<br />
''Quarry Movie'' (10 min., USA, 1999)<br />
<br />
''Flight'' (5 min., USA, 1997)<br />
<br />
''Portland'' (15 min., USA, 1996)<br />
<br />
''NoZone'' (18 min., USA 1993)<br />
<br />
''Our Gay Brothers'' (9 min., USA 1993)<br />
<br />
''Mute'' (15 min., USA 1991)<br />
<br />
''Blood Story'' (3 min., USA 1990)<br />
<br />
''Futility (10 min., USA 1989)<br />
<br />
''Hard Core Home Movie'' (5 min., USA 1989)<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
1 Retrieved from http://cinema.sfsu.edu/people/faculty/greta-snider<br />
<br />
<br />
[[category:film]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:1980s]] [[category:2000s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:famous characters]]</div>Paulgrammhttps://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Greta_Snider,_Experimental_Filmmaker&diff=24001Greta Snider, Experimental Filmmaker2015-04-24T20:35:56Z<p>Paulgramm: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>'''<br />
<br />
''by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/gretasniderexperimentalfilmmaker&playlist=1" width="640" height="580" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
''Video by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
Greta Snider is an experimental filmmaker. Her earlier work on 16mm includes a collection of audio and visual experiences that combines photography, found footage, and her own experiences of the San Francisco punk scene in the early 1990s. Her work includes experiments with simultaneous soundtracks (Blood Story, 1990), engaging personal accounts of a scraped-together journey with friends (Portland, 1996), and an audio travelogue of the San Francisco punk scene. Greta Snider's more recent work includes, in collaboration with Johunna Grayson, a series of slide show projections comprised of hand-processed photographs and stereoscopic images. The series is described as an update on the ‘campy Viewmaster format’, riffing on the concept of the travelogue to present the unseen and underground aspects. Subjects range from forgotten aspects of the everyday (“old man bars”, flowers, parts of the body) to the extreme (a Viewmaster series of atomic test blasts). Snider’s films explore the importance of small memories, retrieving pieces of ephemera from the underground and re-presenting them on screen.1 She is currently a tenured Professor at San Francisco State University. <br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/bloodstoryfilmclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Blood Story'' (1990)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/portlandflimclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Portland'' (1996)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
I had the pleasure of having Greta Snider as a teacher at California College of Arts and Crafts (now simply California College of the Arts). She is a fantastic teacher and I was able to view works such as ''Portland''and also works such as ''Hard Core Home Movie''and ''Our Gay Brothers''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/hardcorehomemovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Hard Core Home Movie'' (1989)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/ourgaybrothersfilmclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Our Gay Brothers'' (1993)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
Doing research on the films of Greta's, I found that she is the queen of all trades and mistress of all. I say this because her works touch on various aesthetics. From the gritty DIY films of ''Hard Core Home Movie'' and ''Portland'', to found footage collage in the films of ''Futility''(1989) and ''Our Gay Brothers'', to documentaries such as ''Urine Man'' (2000), to a touching homage to her father in ''Flight''(1997).<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/flightfilmclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Flight'' (1997)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
In the interview, I asked Greta about gender behind the camera. She replied, "Can you tell if the person shooting or directing the film is male or female...I would say no." In the case of Greta Snider's work, I would say that this is a very true statement as I believe that her work doesn't identify gender. Her work is honest, gritty, edgy, and visually stunning. It has no conditions or boundaries and that's as it should be.<br />
<br />
To know more about Greta Snider, please click [here][http://www.heatsignature.com/greta.html] <br />
<br />
To view complete versions of her work, please click [here][https://vimeo.com/user12288191]<br />
<br />
<font size=4>Filmography</font><br />
<br />
''The Magic of Radio'' (23 min., USA, 2001)<br />
<br />
''Urine Man'' (5 min., USA, 2000)<br />
<br />
''Quarry Movie'' (10 min., USA, 1999)<br />
<br />
''Flight'' (5 min., USA, 1997)<br />
<br />
''Portland'' (15 min., USA, 1996)<br />
<br />
''NoZone'' (18 min., USA 1993)<br />
<br />
''Our Gay Brothers'' (9 min., USA 1993)<br />
<br />
''Mute'' (15 min., USA 1991)<br />
<br />
''Blood Story'' (3 min., USA 1990)<br />
<br />
''Futility (10 min., USA 1989)<br />
<br />
''Hard Core Home Movie'' (5 min., USA 1989)<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
1 Retrieved from http://cinema.sfsu.edu/people/faculty/greta-snider<br />
<br />
<br />
[[category:film]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:1980s]] [[category:2000s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:famous characters]]</div>Paulgrammhttps://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Greta_Snider,_Experimental_Filmmaker&diff=24000Greta Snider, Experimental Filmmaker2015-04-24T20:34:43Z<p>Paulgramm: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>'''<br />
<br />
''by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/gretasniderexperimentalfilmmaker&playlist=1" width="640" height="580" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
''Video by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
Greta Snider is an experimental filmmaker. Her earlier work on 16mm includes a collection of audio and visual experiences that combines photography, found footage, and her own experiences of the San Francisco punk scene in the early 1990s. Her work includes experiments with simultaneous soundtracks (Blood Story, 1990), engaging personal accounts of a scraped-together journey with friends (Portland, 1996), and an audio travelogue of the San Francisco punk scene. Greta Snider's more recent work includes, in collaboration with Johunna Grayson, a series of slide show projections comprised of hand-processed photographs and stereoscopic images. The series is described as an update on the ‘campy Viewmaster format’, riffing on the concept of the travelogue to present the unseen and underground aspects. Subjects range from forgotten aspects of the everyday (“old man bars”, flowers, parts of the body) to the extreme (a Viewmaster series of atomic test blasts). Snider’s films explore the importance of small memories, retrieving pieces of ephemera from the underground and re-presenting them on screen.1 She is currently a tenured Professor at San Francisco State University. <br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/bloodstoryfilmclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Blood Story'' (1990)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/portlandflimclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Portland'' (1996)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
I had the pleasure of having Greta Snider as a teacher at California College of Arts and Crafts (now simply California College of the Arts). She is a fantastic teacher and I was able to view works such as ''Portland''and also works such as ''Hard Core Home Movie''and ''Our Gay Brothers''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/hardcorehomemovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Hard Core Home Movie'' (1989)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/ourgaybrothersfilmclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Our Gay Brothers'' (1993)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
Doing research on the films of Greta's, I found that she is the queen of all trades and mistress of all. I say this because her works touch on various aesthetics. From the gritty DIY films of ''Hard Core Home Movie'' and ''Portland'', to found footage collage in the films of ''Futility''(1989) and ''Our Gay Brothers'', to documentaries such as ''Urine Man'' (2000), to a touching homage to her father in ''Flight''(1997).<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/flightfilmclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Flight'' (1997)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
In the interview, I asked Greta about gender behind the camera. She replied, "Can you tell if the person shooting or directing the film is male or female...I would say no." In the case of Greta Snider's work, I would say that this is a very true statement as I believe that her work doesn't identify gender. Her work is honest, gritty, edgy, and visually stunning. It has no conditions or boundaries and that's as it should be.<br />
<br />
To know more about Greta Snider, please click [here][http://www.heatsignature.com/greta.html] <br />
<br />
To view complete versions of her work, please click [here][https://vimeo.com/user12288191]<br />
<br />
<font size=4>Filmography</font><br />
<br />
''The Magic of Radio'' (23 min., USA, 2001)<br />
<br />
''Urine Man'' (5 min., USA, 2000)<br />
<br />
''Quarry Movie'' (10 min., USA, 1999)<br />
<br />
''Flight'' (5 min., USA, 1997)<br />
<br />
''Portland'' (15 min., USA, 1996)<br />
<br />
''NoZone'' (18 min., USA 1993)<br />
<br />
''Our Gay Brothers'' (9 min., USA 1993)<br />
<br />
''Mute'' (15 min., USA 1991)<br />
<br />
''Blood Story'' (3 min., USA 1990)<br />
<br />
''Futility (10 min., USA 1989)<br />
<br />
''Hard Core Home Movie'' (5 min., USA 1989)<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
1 Retrieved from [http://cinema.sfsu.edu/people/faculty/greta-snider]<br />
<br />
<br />
[[category:film]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:1980s]] [[category:2000s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:famous characters]]</div>Paulgrammhttps://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Greta_Snider,_Experimental_Filmmaker&diff=23999Greta Snider, Experimental Filmmaker2015-04-22T15:15:55Z<p>Paulgramm: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>'''<br />
<br />
''by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/gretasniderexperimentalfilmmaker&playlist=1" width="640" height="580" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
''Video by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
Professor Snider is an experimental filmmaker. Her earlier work on 16mm includes a collection of audio and visual experiences that combines photography, found footage, and her own experiences of the San Francisco punk scene in the early 1990s. Her work includes experiments with simultaneous soundtracks (Blood Story, 1990), engaging personal accounts of a scraped-together journey with friends (Portland, 1996), and an audio travelogue of the San Francisco punk scene. Professor Snider's more recent work includes, in collaboration with Johunna Grayson, a series of slide show projections comprised of hand-processed photographs and stereoscopic images. The series is described as an update on the ‘campy Viewmaster format’, riffing on the concept of the travelogue to present the unseen and underground aspects. Subjects range from forgotten aspects of the everyday (“old man bars”, flowers, parts of the body) to the extreme (a Viewmaster series of atomic test blasts). Snider’s films explore the importance of small memories, retrieving pieces of ephemera from the underground and re-presenting them on screen.<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/bloodstoryfilmclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Blood Story'' (1990)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/portlandflimclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Portland'' (1996)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
I had the pleasure of having Professor Snider as a teacher at California College of Arts and Crafts (now simply California College of the Arts). She is a fantastic teacher and I was able to view works such as ''Portland''and also works such as ''Hard Core Home Movie''and ''Our Gay Brothers''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/hardcorehomemovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Hard Core Home Movie'' (1989)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/ourgaybrothersfilmclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Our Gay Brothers'' (1993)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
Doing research on the films of Professor Snider, I found that she is the queen of all trades and mistress of all. I say this because her works touch on various aesthetics. From the gritty DIY films of ''Hard Core Home Movie'' and ''Portland'', to found footage collage in the films of ''Futility''(1989) and ''Our Gay Brothers'', to documentaries such as ''Urine Man'' (2000), to a touching homage to her father in ''Flight''(1997).<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/flightfilmclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Flight'' (1997)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
In the interview, I asked Professor Snider about gender behind the camera. She replied, "Can you tell if the person shooting or directing the film is male or female...I would say no." In the case, of Professor Snider's work, I would say that this is a very true statement as I believe that her work doesn't identify gender. Her work is honest, gritty, edgy, and visually stunning. It has no conditions or boundaries and that's as it should be.<br />
<br />
To know more about Greta Snider, please click [here][http://www.heatsignature.com/greta.html] <br />
<br />
To view complete versions of her work, please click [here][https://vimeo.com/user12288191]<br />
<br />
<font size=4>Filmography</font><br />
<br />
''The Magic of Radio'' (23 min., USA, 2001)<br />
<br />
''Urine Man'' (5 min., USA, 2000)<br />
<br />
''Quarry Movie'' (10 min., USA, 1999)<br />
<br />
''Flight'' (5 min., USA, 1997)<br />
<br />
''Portland'' (15 min., USA, 1996)<br />
<br />
''NoZone'' (18 min., USA 1993)<br />
<br />
''Our Gay Brothers'' (9 min., USA 1993)<br />
<br />
''Mute'' (15 min., USA 1991)<br />
<br />
''Blood Story'' (3 min., USA 1990)<br />
<br />
''Futility (10 min., USA 1989)<br />
<br />
''Hard Core Home Movie'' (5 min., USA 1989)<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[[category:film]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:1980s]] [[category:2000s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:famous characters]]</div>Paulgrammhttps://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Greta_Snider,_Experimental_Filmmaker&diff=23998Greta Snider, Experimental Filmmaker2015-04-22T15:15:10Z<p>Paulgramm: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>'''<br />
<br />
''by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/gretasniderexperimentalfilmmaker&playlist=1" width="640" height="580" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
''Video by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
Professor Snider is an experimental filmmaker. Her earlier work on 16mm includes a collection of audio and visual experiences that combines photography, found footage, and her own experiences of the San Francisco punk scene in the early 1990s. Her work includes experiments with simultaneous soundtracks (Blood Story, 1990), engaging personal accounts of a scraped-together journey with friends (Portland, 1996), and an audio travelogue of the San Francisco punk scene. Professor Snider's more recent work includes, in collaboration with Johunna Grayson, a series of slide show projections comprised of hand-processed photographs and stereoscopic images. The series is described as an update on the ‘campy Viewmaster format’, riffing on the concept of the travelogue to present the unseen and underground aspects. Subjects range from forgotten aspects of the everyday (“old man bars”, flowers, parts of the body) to the extreme (a Viewmaster series of atomic test blasts). Snider’s films explore the importance of small memories, retrieving pieces of ephemera from the underground and re-presenting them on screen.<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/bloodstoryfilmclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Blood Story'' (1990)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/portlandflimclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Portland'' (1996)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
I had the pleasure of having Professor Snider as a teacher at California College of Arts and Crafts (now simply California College of the Arts). She is a fantastic teacher and I was able to view works such as ''Portland''and also works such as ''Hard Core Home Movie''and ''Our Gay Brothers''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/hardcorehomemovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Hard Core Home Movie'' (1989)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/ourgaybrothersfilmclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Our Gay Brothers''(1993)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
Doing research on the films of Professor Snider, I found that she is the queen of all trades and mistress of all. I say this because her works touch on various aesthetics. From the gritty DIY films of ''Hard Core Home Movie'' and ''Portland'', to found footage collage in the films of ''Futility''(1989) and ''Our Gay Brothers'', to documentaries such as ''Urine Man'' (2000), to a touching homage to her father in ''Flight''(1997).<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/flightfilmclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
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'''Clip of ''Flight'' (1997)'''<br />
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''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
In the interview, I asked Professor Snider about gender behind the camera. She replied, "Can you tell if the person shooting or directing the film is male or female...I would say no." In the case, of Professor Snider's work, I would say that this is a very true statement as I believe that her work doesn't identify gender. Her work is honest, gritty, edgy, and visually stunning. It has no conditions or boundaries and that's as it should be.<br />
<br />
To know more about Greta Snider, please click [here][http://www.heatsignature.com/greta.html] <br />
<br />
To view complete versions of her work, please click [here][https://vimeo.com/user12288191]<br />
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<font size=4>Filmography</font><br />
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''The Magic of Radio'' (23 min., USA, 2001)<br />
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''Urine Man'' (5 min., USA, 2000)<br />
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''Quarry Movie'' (10 min., USA, 1999)<br />
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''Flight'' (5 min., USA, 1997)<br />
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''Portland'' (15 min., USA, 1996)<br />
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''NoZone'' (18 min., USA 1993)<br />
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''Our Gay Brothers'' (9 min., USA 1993)<br />
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''Mute'' (15 min., USA 1991)<br />
<br />
''Blood Story'' (3 min., USA 1990)<br />
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''Futility (10 min., USA 1989)<br />
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''Hard Core Home Movie'' (5 min., USA 1989)<br />
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[[category:film]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:1980s]] [[category:2000s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:famous characters]]</div>Paulgrammhttps://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Greta_Snider,_Experimental_Filmmaker&diff=23997Greta Snider, Experimental Filmmaker2015-04-22T15:13:59Z<p>Paulgramm: </p>
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<div>'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>'''<br />
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''by Paul Grammatico''<br />
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<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/gretasniderexperimentalfilmmaker&playlist=1" width="640" height="580" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
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''Video by Paul Grammatico''<br />
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Professor Snider is an experimental filmmaker. Her earlier work on 16mm includes a collection of audio and visual experiences that combines photography, found footage, and her own experiences of the San Francisco punk scene in the early 1990s. Her work includes experiments with simultaneous soundtracks (Blood Story, 1990), engaging personal accounts of a scraped-together journey with friends (Portland, 1996), and an audio travelogue of the San Francisco punk scene. Professor Snider's more recent work includes, in collaboration with Johunna Grayson, a series of slide show projections comprised of hand-processed photographs and stereoscopic images. The series is described as an update on the ‘campy Viewmaster format’, riffing on the concept of the travelogue to present the unseen and underground aspects. Subjects range from forgotten aspects of the everyday (“old man bars”, flowers, parts of the body) to the extreme (a Viewmaster series of atomic test blasts). Snider’s films explore the importance of small memories, retrieving pieces of ephemera from the underground and re-presenting them on screen.<br />
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<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/bloodstoryfilmclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Blood Story''(1990)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/portlandflimclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Portland''(1996)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
I had the pleasure of having Professor Snider as a teacher at California College of Arts and Crafts (now simply California College of the Arts). She is a fantastic teacher and I was able to view works such as ''Portland''and also works such as ''Hard Core Home Movie''and ''Our Gay Brothers''<br />
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<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/hardcorehomemovieclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Hard Core Home Movie''(1989)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/ourgaybrothersfilmclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Our Gay Brothers''(1993)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
Doing research on the films of Professor Snider, I found that she is the queen of all trades and mistress of all. I say this because her works touch on various aesthetics. From the gritty DIY films of ''Hard Core Home Movie'' and ''Portland'', to found footage collage in the films of ''Futility''(1989) and ''Our Gay Brothers'', to documentaries such as ''Urine Man'' (2000), to a touching homage to her father in ''Flight''(1997).<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/flightfilmclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Flight''(1997)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
In the interview, I asked Professor Snider about gender behind the camera. She replied, "Can you tell if the person shooting or directing the film is male or female...I would say no." In the case, of Professor Snider's work, I would say that this is a very true statement as I believe that her work doesn't identify gender. Her work is honest, gritty, edgy, and visually stunning. It has no conditions or boundaries and that's as it should be.<br />
<br />
To know more about Greta Snider, please click [here][http://www.heatsignature.com/greta.html] <br />
<br />
To view complete versions of her work, please click [here][https://vimeo.com/user12288191]<br />
<br />
<font size=4>Filmography</font><br />
<br />
''The Magic of Radio'' (23 min., USA, 2001)<br />
<br />
''Urine Man'' (5 min., USA, 2000)<br />
<br />
''Quarry Movie'' (10 min., USA, 1999)<br />
<br />
''Flight'' (5 min., USA, 1997)<br />
<br />
''Portland'' (15 min., USA, 1996)<br />
<br />
''NoZone'' (18 min., USA 1993)<br />
<br />
''Our Gay Brothers'' (9 min., USA 1993)<br />
<br />
''Mute'' (15 min., USA 1991)<br />
<br />
''Blood Story'' (3 min., USA 1990)<br />
<br />
''Futility (10 min., USA 1989)<br />
<br />
''Hard Core Home Movie'' (5 min., USA 1989)<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[[category:film]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:1980s]] [[category:2000s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:famous characters]]</div>Paulgrammhttps://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Greta_Snider,_Experimental_Filmmaker&diff=23991Greta Snider, Experimental Filmmaker2015-04-21T18:00:25Z<p>Paulgramm: Created page with ''''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>''' ''by Paul Grammatico'' <iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/gretasnide...'</p>
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<div>'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>'''<br />
<br />
''by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/gretasniderexperimentalfilmmaker&playlist=1" width="640" height="580" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
''Video by Paul Grammatico''<br />
<br />
Professor Snider is an experimental filmmaker. Her earlier work on 16mm includes a collection of audio and visual experiences that combines photography, found footage, and her own experiences of the San Francisco punk scene in the early 1990s. Her work includes experiments with simultaneous soundtracks (Blood Story, 1990), engaging personal accounts of a scraped-together journey with friends (Portland, 1996), and an audio travelogue of the San Francisco punk scene. Professor Snider's more recent work includes, in collaboration with Johunna Grayson, a series of slide show projections comprised of hand-processed photographs and stereoscopic images. The series is described as an update on the ‘campy Viewmaster format’, riffing on the concept of the travelogue to present the unseen and underground aspects. Subjects range from forgotten aspects of the everyday (“old man bars”, flowers, parts of the body) to the extreme (a Viewmaster series of atomic test blasts). Snider’s films explore the importance of small memories, retrieving pieces of ephemera from the underground and re-presenting them on screen.<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/bloodstoryfilmclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Blood Story''(1990)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/portlandflimclip" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<br />
'''Clip of ''Portland''(1996)'''<br />
<br />
''Courtesy of Greta Snider''<br />
<br />
I had the pleasure of having Professor Snider as a teacher at California College of Arts and Crafts (now simply California College of the Arts).</div>Paulgramm