Jeff Scher Movies

I made this film while experimenting with a home made rotoscope. It was drawn on index cards. It's a sort of valentine to film, to life and to Xavier...

Soundtrack: American Royalty

The idea of this film was to make a movie still life in which only the paint moved. I made fifty or so paintings using the same template, a still...

Painted on a revolving “wheel” of paper mounted on a rig, the film is an animated series of “loops" as the wheel is rotated over...

In Warren, Scher turns the table on his former teacher and mentor, creating an intimate dialogue between friends as well as a battle of directorial...

Scher made this in 1976 as a student at Bard College. He printed it to negative years later and liked the way it looked better than the now faded...

This film was a test of an idea for bi-pack shooting. I used some outtakes from Trigger Happy and had a positive and negative high-contrast print...

"I made this in 1975 while in college. It was my anti smoking response to Oskar Fischinger's cigarette commercials. It was aired a few times on PBS."...

This film was shot before Grand Central became a tourist attraction and overrun with their lazy directionless gait. It would be a different film if...

Bang Bang was an experiment in animating positive and negative Rorschach-like bilaterally symmetrical ink blots. It is at heart a flicker film, ...

The film is a film of Japanese traditional fabric stencil in a non-repeating single frame pattern.

The watercolor-painted animated short depicts an Ancient Aztec human sacrifice.

This film is made of more than 2,000 watercolor paintings and drawings in a style I call “psychadelichrome,” in which the color varies...

This film was really Sid’s idea, I was just the cameraman. Sid was an obsessive Boston Terrier whose idea of bliss was to be swung around on a...

The postcards in this film were all sent to me by my friend and filmmaking mentor, Warren Sonbert, who died of AIDS in 1995. Warren was a great...