Jeff Scher Movies

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

The kiss is particularly interesting to me, as it’s one of the best things we all get to do, yet almost everyone does it with their eyes closed.

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

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

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

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

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...