Jeff Scher Movies

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.

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...

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 2013 ode to underground public transport.

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...

"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 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...

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

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...