Jeff Scher Movies

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

Jeff Scher's 2013 ode to underground public transport.

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

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...

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

"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 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 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...