Jon Rafman Movies

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

Television for the AI age.

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

Dissonance of the digital and physical archive.

Tales of a street historian.

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

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