Jeff Scher Movies

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...

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...

The watercolor-painted animated short depicts an Ancient Aztec human sacrifice.

During the years preceeding his death, Sonbert channeled his energy into making Whiplash. His vision and motor skills impaired, he gave his...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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, ...

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...

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

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...