Jon Rafman Movies

"Poor Magic effects a beautiful yet terrifying rendition of contemporary consciousness, gesturing towards civilisation's listless drift beyond the...

Landscapes for Neon Parallel - Game Ambience (2015) by Jon Rafman

SHADOWBANNED (2018) uses the aesthetics of internet conspiracy theories to tell the story of an anonymous narrator on an enigmatic, transdimensional...

Tales of a street historian.

Imago (an incomplete work) (2010) by Jon Rafman

A self-reflexive paranoid thriller. The narrator profits from surveillance images of strangers' catastrophes. Confronted by a subject, he constructs...

A king reflects about death.

An essay film in the tradition of experimental documentarians like Chris Marker or Harun Farocki, Remember Carthage takes the viewer on an epic...

Two samurais fight on a beach.

In ᖴᗩᑕIᗩᒪᔕ I, Jon Rafman alters a selection of these unwrapped head textures and animates the transformation in...

Center of a three-channel video. Narration over computer-generated landscapes and figures.

Part live-action footage, video game sequences, simulated chat, poetic voiceover and virtual landscape, Neon Parallel 1996 is in Rafman’s own...

Episode 1: The City of Lost Objects. Short by Jon Rafman.

Television for the AI age.

Kool-Aid Man in Second Life- Jon Rafman interview with Nicholas O'Brien (2009)

Annals of Time Lost works towards illuminating the individual’s relationship to the archive and the desire for physical presence. The...

Erysichthon is the final element in a trilogy of videos including Still Life (Betamale) and Mainsqueeze. Like the other videos of the series, it...

An anonymous narrator, alone in his apartment, cannot tell if his inner life is composed of memories of dreams or memories of reality. Using a...

Short film by Jon Rafman.

Nine Eyes of Google Street View: Slideshow (2020) by Jon Rafman