How Do You Measure A Year?
USA2021documentary29'Międzynarodowy konkurs filmów krótkometrażowych (2022)
Ella is the daughter of Jay Rosenblatt, a director known for his documentary experiments. At the same time, Ella is the protagonist of the film, who answers a few simple questions every year from her second to her eighteenth birthday. How do her answers change over time? The questions concern her private life, family life, but also more general concepts, such as power. Although the form of Rosenblatt’s film falls into the category of a home movie, it is hard not to link the American director’s film with Krzysztof Kieslowski’s legendary Talking Heads (1980).
Awards
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2022 Short film competition
The award for the best short filmGolden Dragon
- directed by
- Jay Rosenblatt
American experimental film director who has been working as a freelance filmmaker since 1980. He has made over 30 films. He is a fellow of the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundation. His films have received numerous awards at international festivals. His retrospective was organized, among others, during the New York Film Forum and at MoMA in New York. His work has often been critically reviewed, including in the New York Times and such magazines as Sight&Sound and Filmmaker. He is the programming director of the Jewish Film Festival in San Francisco.
- cinematography
- Jay Rosenblatt, Thomas Logoreci
- editing
- Jay Rosenblatt
- production
- Jay Rosenblatt (Jay Rosenblatt Films)
- Photo