Jeff Scher Movies

  • 2013
    Tunnel Vision

    Tunnel Vision

    Tunnel Vision

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    Jeff Scher's 2013 ode to underground public transport.

    Tunnel Vision
  • 1999
    Grand Central

    Grand Central

    Grand Central

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    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...

    Grand Central
  • 2007
    L'Eau Life

    L'Eau Life

    L'Eau Life

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    L'Eau Life
  • 1994
    Garden of Regrets

    Garden of Regrets

    Garden of Regrets

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    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...

    Garden of Regrets
  • 1998
    Bang Bang

    Bang Bang

    Bang Bang

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

    Bang Bang
  • 1995
    Kodachrome Love Poem

    Kodachrome Love Poem

    Kodachrome Love Poem

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    Kodachrome Love Poem
  • 2019
    Swanee

    Swanee

    Swanee

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    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...

    Swanee
  • 1985
    Area Striata

    Area Striata

    Area Striata

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

    Area Striata
  • 2020
    Vote

    Vote

    Vote

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    Vote
  • 1998
    Sid

    Sid

    Sid

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    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...

    Sid
  • 1998
    Postcards From Warren

    Postcards From Warren

    Postcards From Warren

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    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...

    Postcards From Warren
  • 2003
    Spin Cycle

    Spin Cycle

    Spin Cycle

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

    Spin Cycle
  • 1970
    Ashtray Ballet

    Ashtray Ballet

    Ashtray Ballet

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    "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."...

    Ashtray Ballet
  • 2004
    Lost and Found

    Lost and Found

    Lost and Found

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

    Lost and Found
  • 2009
    Where There's Smoke

    Where There's Smoke

    Where There's Smoke

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    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...

    Where There's Smoke
  • 2012
    The Shadow's Dream

    The Shadow's Dream

    The Shadow's Dream

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    The Shadow's Dream