Jeff Scher Movies

A romantic comedy of misadventure.

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...

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...

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

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

An animated short film created by the artist Jeff Scher.

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

"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...

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

Soundtrack: American Royalty

A diverse compilation of short animations from NYC's popular festival, Animation Block Party. Various genres and narratives. A great mix-tape of...

“Trigger Happy” was made with hundreds of objects found on the streets and sidewalks of New York. It began as an attempt to make an...

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...

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...

Esther Robinson's portrait of her uncle Danny Williams, Warhol's onetime lover, collaborator and filmmaker in his own right, offers a exploration of...

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...

Jeff Scher's 2013 ode to underground public transport.

In Warren, Scher turns the table on his former teacher and mentor, creating an intimate dialogue between friends as well as a battle of directorial...