Synopsis

Vacation follows a protagonist road tripping home from college. A sudden volcanic eruption totals his car and destroys all his possessions. Barely surviving, our destitute star builds a life for himself out of furniture that has washed up on the shore, making an unremarkable patch of beach his home. An absurd fable on the nature of nature unfolds as he meets three animal companions: an intransigent seagull, a brilliant spider hidden in a broken laptop, and a divorced fish battling for custody over her 50,000 children.

Yifan Jiang

Yifan Jiang (China) is a Chinese Canadian artist and filmmaker based between NYC and Roswell. Jiang holds an MFA from Columbia University (2021) and a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Jiang’s work has been shown internationally at galleries, museums and film festivals, including a two-part exhibition at Meliksetian | Briggs in Los Angeles, and Zero-sum Game at Christian Andersen Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark.

James Mercer

James Mercer is a New York-based artist who paints, draws and animates. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Digital Imaging and Digital Animation at Drew University. Mercer studied Printmaking at Rhode Island School of Design and earned a master of Fine Arts at Columbia University. His work has been screened and exhibited around the world, including most recently at London International Animation Festival 2022.