Jon Rafman Movies

Tortured by a vague memory, a man interviews three women to see if he met them in the past.

Short film by Jon Rafman.

A journey through virtual death.

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

Dissonance of the digital and physical archive.

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

A series of character studies by Jon Rafman, loosely inspired by reddit copypasta.

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

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

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

A king reflects about death.

""The woods of Arcady are dead, And over is their antique joy;" – with this line begins Rafman's Woods of Arcady. The work juxtaposes a...

A compelling mix of attraction and repulsion, Mainsqueeze is entirely composed of footage found online, surfing the deep web.

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

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

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

Rather than the charms of the lyre, contemporary technological tools, Google Street View and Google Earth, beckon as the pathway for our narrator to...

Kool-Aid Man travels through a variety of worlds from the video game Second Life.

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

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