James J.A. Mercer Movies

In 2003, eight Rhode Islanders created a secret apartment inside a busy mall and lived there for four years, filming everything along the way. Far...

The machinations of a futuristic landfill.

A collaborative film between Yifan Jiang and James Mercer

The Black Box is a slide lecture exploring, among other topics, more than a century of the history of online shopping. 124 slides, approximately one...

After receiving a name from its grandmother, a baby is faced with the prospects of knowledge, love and death in a game of two truths and a lie.

A destitute man builds a life for himself out of furniture that has washed up on the shore, making an unremarkable patch of beach his home.

Against the odds, our daydreaming protagonist survives a catastrophic train crash and stumbles through suggestive, inexplicable and unconvincing...