Jeff Scher Movies

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...

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

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...

Jeff Scher's short animation, first released in 2020.

The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 is retold in song and animation.

"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."...

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

Jeff Scher's 2013 ode to underground public transport.

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...

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...

Soundtrack: American Royalty

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...