Jeff Scher Filmes

  • 1998
    Sid

    Sid

    Sid

    01998HD

    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...

    Sid
  • 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
  • 1995
    Nerve Tonic

    Nerve Tonic

    Nerve Tonic

    01995HD

    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...

    Nerve Tonic
  • 1995
    Kodachrome Love Poem

    Kodachrome Love Poem

    Kodachrome Love Poem

    01995HD

    Kodachrome Love Poem
  • 1975
    Ashtray Ballet

    Ashtray Ballet

    Ashtray Ballet

    01975HD

    "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
  • 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
  • 1999
    Grand Central

    Grand Central

    Grand Central

    01999HD

    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...

    Grand Central
  • 2007
    White Out

    White Out

    White Out

    02007HD

    In short, it's a film about winter. And to create it, Jeff Scher composed approximately 2,250 watercolor paintings on paper. Each one is elegant and...

    White Out
  • 2020
    Confused Cricket with Grapefruit

    Confused Cricket with Grapefruit

    Confused Cricket with Grapefruit

    02020HD

    A collage film I made during the Covid lockdown. Images from American politics collide with grapefruits, Mackerels, and paper cut-out explosions. I...

    Confused Cricket with Grapefruit
  • 2009
    Where There's Smoke

    Where There's Smoke

    Where There's Smoke

    02009HD

    Dancing flames of a burning log in a fireplace can take you out of yourself and connect you with a deep and primal place. Echoes of holidays past...

    Where There's Smoke
  • 2020
    Vote

    Vote

    Vote

    02020HD

    Vote
  • 2019
    Swanee

    Swanee

    Swanee

    02019HD

    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...

    Swanee
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1994
    Garden of Regrets

    Garden of Regrets

    Garden of Regrets

    01994HD

    Garden of Regrets is an experiment in making a film that feels as if it has percolated up from the subconscious; a dream you can watch with your eyes...

    Garden of Regrets
  • 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
    Spin Cycle

    Spin Cycle

    Spin Cycle

    02003HD

    A short animation featuring a spinning slice of bread by Jeff Scher with music by Shay Lynch.

    Spin Cycle