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Mercies May

Directing · Minneapolis, Minnesota

Mercies May is a Minneapolis-based horror writer-director whose work uses genre to explore trauma, grief, and power dynamics, often where those forces intersect. He has directed more than 160 independent music videos, developing a highly visual, rhythm-driven approach to filmmaking. He has also worked as a freelance screenwriter, including co-writing an adaptation of August Prize-winning novel They Will Drown in Their Mothers’ Tears with author Johannes Anyuru. In addition, he served as director of photography on Stage, the Midwest Emmy Award-winning TPT/PBS music documentary series. His latest short film, A Shadow in the Corner of the Room, explores entropy, isolation, and aging through the most elemental fear: what may be waiting in the dark.

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  I Used to be You

  Director of Photography

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  A Shadow in the Corner of the Room

  Director

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  Trade for Print

  Writer

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  Honor's Half-Life

  Producer

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  The Last Fare

  Director

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  Every Time We Meet for Ice Cream Your Whole F*cking Face Explodes

  BTS Videographer

• 2026A Shadow in the Corner of the RoomDirector
• 2024Honor's Half-LifeProducer
• 2022Every Time We Meet for Ice Cream Your Whole F*cking Face ExplodesBTS Videographer
• 2021I Used to be YouDirector of Photography
• —Trade for PrintWriter
• —The Last FareDirector