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Zhelun “Jerry” Lin

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Writer-Director｜Bay Area
I don't bleed, I bleed ink and strawberry milk.

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Mini fight sequence rehearsal for the short film Replaced-directed by Zhelun “Jerry” Lin. This was a lot of fun! 💥

#fight by @jerrylin8877

Wasn’t thinking about the cacti in Nevada, wasn’t thinking about the sea breeze in California. by @jerrylin8877

At its core, this is a journey of chasing the next stimulus amid a deepening sense of aesthetic fatigue. by @jerrylin8877

Three years ago and last night seemed unchanged. I was in the same karaoke bar, with the same people, singing the same song. by @jerrylin8877

REPLACED

A psychological sci-fi noir short about grief, imitation, and replacement.

A near-final version of the film will be screened as part of the Emerson MFA Thesis Screenings:

May 6, 2026
6:00 PM EDT
Bright Family Screening Room
Emerson College
559 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02111

Friends and guests are welcome. by @jerrylin8877

At least there’s no snow on the West Coast. by @jerrylin8877

The moment we wrapped, I quietly slipped outside the set. I was thinly dressed, breathing hard, drinking in the cold Massachusetts air. Inside, I could hear my colleagues celebrating. Yet I just stood there alone, wrapped in the hush of the snowy night.

Photo by @mompointphotography and me. by @jerrylin8877

Maybe it is the fear of power losing control again that makes extreme rigor preferable. by @jerrylin8877

History is thicker than the snow,
and divine authority once rose higher than the clouds.
Yet in this city wrapped in cold, the houses still carry color.

Perhaps this is what Jan Hus died for. by @jerrylin8877

Don Quixote may never know that the beach where his dreams were buried can still hold endless dreams for others—but I imagine Cervantes knew. by @jerrylin8877

Gaudí’s degree of control over his creation reaches the level of an auteur—something rare in the field of architecture—to the extent that, in a certain sense, the Sagrada Família can be understood as an interactive media of extraordinarily high narrative density. by @jerrylin8877

On the 24th of February, 1815, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-masted vessel, the Pharaon, from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples.
As usual, a coast-pilot immediately left the port, skirted the Château d’If, and boarded the ship between Cape Morgiou and the island of Rion.

210 years later, it was my turn to arrive here. by @jerrylin8877