Jeff Scher Movies

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

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

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

I made this film while experimenting with a home made rotoscope. It was drawn on index cards. It's a sort of valentine to film, to life and to Xavier...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

Animated on a lampshade by Jeff Scher with music by Shay Lynch.

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...

"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."...