Jeff Scher Movies

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...

A six minute short made in New York City by Jeffrey Noyes Scher.

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...

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 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...

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...

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

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

“Trigger Happy” was made with hundreds of objects found on the streets and sidewalks of New York. It began as an attempt to make an...

Jeff Scher's 2013 ode to underground public transport.

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

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

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

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...