Movies: James J.A. Mercer

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 more than a prank, the secret apartment became a deeply meaningful place for all involved....

The machinations of a futuristic landfill....

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....

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....

Against the odds, our daydreaming protagonist survives a catastrophic train crash and stumbles through suggestive, inexplicable and unconvincing infrastructural spaces. His sense of detachment is called into question as ambiguities accumulate. The li...