Jeff Scher Movies

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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 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 Motion picture adaptation of the book. Also, my first film in French.

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...

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.

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...