Jeff Scher Movies

"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."...

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 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...

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

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

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...