Jon Rafman Movies

An unseen narrator reunites with his old friend Joey Bernstein in the dingy back room of a comic and games store located in a dead mall. Bernstein...

This single-channel video explores the effects of technology and information overload on the contemporary psyche. Set in a virtual tech-noir urban...

Featuring a cast of over 35 children, with Oneohtrix Point Never’s soundtrack, Sticky Drama portrays the development of a role-playing game set...

In the Realms of Gold (2012) by Jon Rafman - Music by Oneohtrix Point Never Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and...

Experimental narrative animation using hobbyist 3D animation and inspired by niche genres of computer-generated erotica.

Jon Rafman's short features computer-generated renders of the Twin Towers and a narration from Charles Baudelaire's "Le Guignon."

Neptune's Empire: Second Life ambience (2011) by Jon Rafman Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse: ...

‘Still Life (Betamale)’ draws images from a range of online fetish sites, engaging with the theme of obsessive desire. The narrated...

“It’s fire and it crashing! . . . This is the worst of the worst catastrophes in the world! Oh, it’s crashing . . . oh, four or...

A teenage boy's epic struggle against an evil necromancer.

Minor Daemon, Vol. 1 is set in a surreal dystopia that feels like the deranged fever-dream of Hieronymus Bosch if he grew up on 4chan. It traces the...

The film portrays a post-human dystopia featuring faceless 3-D avatars continuously tortured in abstract digital space, a terrifying image of a...

Two samurais fight on a beach.

Legendary Reality is a science-fiction essay film that portrays the recollections of a solitary narrator imprisoned in his own mind. Using a...

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...

Tales of a street historian.

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

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

In a journey that mixes cinematic genres, a legendary arcade video gamer moves seamlessly through actual and virtual space and time. While he...

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