JONAS MEKAS
KEN JACOBS
ROBERT BREER
JEFF SCHER
BILL MORRISON
MARTIN ARNOLD
PAULA SCHER
ORNA BRADSHAW

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Jeff Scher
Artist/ Filmmaker

Lives and Works in New York City.
Born 1954, Connecticut

Education:
Bard College, BFA- 1976
American Film Institute, 1984

Filmography
Melancholia (1974, 15 min, 16mm, Animated)
Volga Ballet (1975, 4 min, 16mm, Live Action)
Technicolor Termites (1975, 60 min, 16mm, Scratch and Paint)
NYC (1976, 3 min, 16mm, Live Action)
Ashtray Ballet (1977, 1 min, 16mm, Animated)
My Glass Runs Quickly (1978, 20 min, 16mm, Live Action)
Reasons To Be Glad (1980, 4 min, 16mm, Animated)
Having (1983, 30 min, Video, Live Action)
The Dental Vendetta (1983, 30 min,Video, Live Action)
He Made Me a Muse (1984, 30 min, Video, Live Action)
Prisoners of Inertia (1989, 90 min, 35mm, Live Action)
Milk of Amnesia (1992, 6 min, 16mm, Animated)
Garden of Regrets (1994, 8 min, 16mm, Animated)
Warren (1995, 3 min, 16mm, Live Action)
Four Letter Heaven (1995, 3 min, 16mm, Animated)
Nerve Tonic (1995, 3 min, 16mm, Animated)
Whiplash (1995, 3 min, 16mm, Animated)
Yours (1997, 30 min, 16mm, Live Action)
Trigger Happy (1997, 7 min, 16mm, Animated)
Sid (1998, 4 min, 16mm, Live Action)
Bang- Bang (1998, 7 min, 16mm, Animated)
Turkish Traffic (1998, 3 min, 16mm, Animated)
Grand Central (1999, 15 min, 16mm, Live Action)
The Jacobsons (2000, 3 min, 16mm, Live Action)
The Bread Ballet (2000, 1 min, 35mm, Animated)
Spaghetti Western (2000, 1 min, 35mm, Animated)
While You Were Sleeping (2000, 1 min, 35mm, Animated)
Go Buster Go (2002, 35mm, Live Action and Animation)
Spin Cycle (2003, 3 min, 16mm, Animated)
Still Loaf with Guitar (2003, 3 min, 16mm, Animated)
Lost and Found (2004, 3 min, 16mm, Animated)
Cunning Stunts (2004, 3 min, 16mm, Animated)
You Won’t Remember This (2004, 3 min, 16mm, Animated)
Portrait of Susan Shin (2004, 3 min, 16mm, Animated)



Selected Projects and Screenings

 

2005 Maya Stendhal Gallery, New York, NY Group Show “REPETITIONS”
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Lost and Found
  2004 Maya Stendhal Gallery,
New York, NY
Milk of Magnesia-Solo show
Museum of Modern Art
New York, NY
Lost and Found

 

2004 Brooklyn Academy of Music,
New York, NY
Spin Cycle
Jessica Murray Projects,
New York, NY

 

2002 You Won’t Remember This
To Preserve and Protect Trailer
Museum of Modern Art
New York, NY

 

1999 Grand Central
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI
New York Underground Film Festival, New York, NY
Dance on Film, Lincoln Center, New York, NY
Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, NY
Anthology Archives, New York, NY
Black Maria Film Festival, Jersey City, NJ
Scratch, Paris, France
The Sundance Channel

 

1998 Bang- Bang
New York Underground Film Festival, New York, NY
Best Experimental Film, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL
Cinemateque, San Francisco, CA
Millennium, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
P.S. 1, New York, NY
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI
Sid
BBC Short Film Festival, London, England
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Museum of Art, Bordeaux, France
P.S. 1, New York, NY
National Art Gallery, Washington D.C.
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI
Humboldt International Film Festival, Arcata, CA
Best Surrealist Film, Oberhausen Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany
Ocularis, New York, NY
New York Children’s Film Festival, New York, NY
The Sundance Channel
   
Selected Awards

 

2002 Creative Capital Grant
2001 Creative Capital Grant
1997 Jerome Foundation
1992 Jerome Foundation
1989 Connecticut Commission of the Arts
1986 New England Filmmaker Fellowship
1980 National Endowment for the Arts

Teaching

School of Visual Arts, Graphic Design M.F.A. Program, Presently Teaching
Columbia University, 1990-1999. Graduate School of the Arts
State University of New York, Purchase College, 1997-1999
New York University, 1996-1998. Film and Animation Professor
Yale University, 1998-2002. Graduate School of the Arts
Bard College, 1974-1976. Film and Animation Professor