Jeff Scher Movies

  • 1970
    Ashtray Ballet

    Ashtray Ballet

    Ashtray Ballet

    01970HD

    "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."...

    Ashtray Ballet
  • 1998
    Bang Bang

    Bang Bang

    Bang Bang

    01998HD

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

    Bang Bang
  • 1985
    Area Striata

    Area Striata

    Area Striata

    01985HD

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

    Area Striata
  • 2003
    While You Were Sleeping

    While You Were Sleeping

    While You Were Sleeping

    82003HD

    The fleeting inverted image of the landscape in the raindrops as they swell from drop to drip is an optical phenomenon, but to me it’s pure...

    While You Were Sleeping
  • 2020
    Crazy Walk

    Crazy Walk

    Crazy Walk

    02020HD

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

    Crazy Walk
  • 2021
    Graham Nash: Dirty Little Secret

    Graham Nash: Dirty Little Secret

    Graham Nash: Dirty Little Secret

    02021HD

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

    Graham Nash: Dirty Little Secret
  • 2013
    Tunnel Vision

    Tunnel Vision

    Tunnel Vision

    02013HD

    Jeff Scher's 2013 ode to underground public transport.

    Tunnel Vision
  • 2007
    L'Eau Life

    L'Eau Life

    L'Eau Life

    02007HD

    L'Eau Life
  • 2003
    Still Loaf with Guitar

    Still Loaf with Guitar

    Still Loaf with Guitar

    02003HD

    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...

    Still Loaf with Guitar
  • 1998
    Postcards From Warren

    Postcards From Warren

    Postcards From Warren

    01998HD

    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...

    Postcards From Warren
  • 1970
    BloodKey

    BloodKey

    BloodKey

    01970HD

    Soundtrack: American Royalty

    BloodKey
  • 1976
    NYC

    NYC

    NYC

    01976HD

    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...

    NYC