The Documentary Sales Company 
Deckert Distribution presents:
The Smell of Burning Ants

The Smell of Burning Ants

USA 1994
21 min
16 mm
Production: Jay Rosenblatt

The Smell of Burning Ants is a haunting account of the pains and trauma of growing up male. In a layered and non-didactic way, it details the process of emotional death many boys suffer as they are socialized to become men. The inner and outer cruelties that boys perpetrate and endure are evocatively presented. Rather than glorifying and romanticizing boyhood, this films opens up wounds to let the poison out.

Winner of 23 awards, including:
"Grand Prize", Hamburg Short
"Best of Festival", Ann Arbor
"Best Documentary", Tampere
"First Prize/Shorts", Locarno
"Best Experimental Film", Melbourne

Jay Rosenblatt

King of the Jews, 2000
Nine Lives (The Eternal Moment of Now), 2000
Human Remains, 1998
A Pregnant Moment, 1998
Period Piece, 1996