Jon Rafman Movies

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

Two samurais fight on a beach.

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

CLOUDY is an AI pop singer created by Canadian artist Jon Rafman.

A triptych video installation exploring collective consciousness, digital entities, and internet culture.

Television for the AI age.

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

A king reflects about death.

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...

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

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

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