Yifan Jiang

29:38 minute animated video written and produced by James J.A. Mercer and Yifan Jiang.

A FedX driver, a new mother, a manipulator, a cheater, an immigrant, and a fast-food employee drift past one another in a small town. The town is revealed piece by piece through this ensemble cast. If a stranger dies, does part of the world die with them? Jason’s Story is a liminal soap opera exploring the impassable spaces between people, a romance stranded nowhere in particular. They were neither bold nor beautiful, only bound together by a few mysterious objects. Trailing the supernatural, this solipsistic thriller exposes the untrustworthy banality of everyday life.