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Film Screening
King of the Jews (2000) by Jay Rosenblatt
Jesus de Buenos Aires (2007) by Osvaldo Romberg
THE CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY

Psychoanalysis and politics inform both of these short, experimental films about Jesus. In King of the Jews, Jay Rosenblatt uses 1950's educational films, home movies, and religious films to depict his childhood fear of Jesus and his attempts, as an adult, to reconcile the story of Jesus with the history of Christian anti-Semitism. In Jesus de Buenos Aires, Jesus faces another inquisition but this time by Lacan and Freud. Set to tango music and accompanied by images of Giotto, the film gives us Jesus as a dissident Jew who, among other things, attempts to rehabilitate Che Guevara.

JAY ROSENBLATT has been making films since 1980. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Rockefeller Fellowship, his works include Phantom Limb, Human Remains, and Smell of Burning Ants. His films have won over one hundred awards and have screened throughout the world. A selection of his films had one-week runs at Film Forum in New York and at theaters in San Francisco, Chicago, Seattle, and Boston.

OSVALDO ROMBERG was born in Buenos Aires. He is a Professor at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and a Senior Curator at Slought Foundation, where he has curated retrospectives on artists such as William Anastasi, Hermann Nitsch, and Dennis Oppenheim. A graphic artist, painter, and filmmaker, he has exhibited at institutions around the world, including Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna; Sudo Museum, Tokyo; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; The Jewish Museum, New York; and the XLI Venice Biennial, Israel Pavilion.