Jon Rafman Movies

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

“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.

In a world where Street View is reality, a man hunts for the forgotten. "Cleaners" delete places, wiping them from existence. The film loops: he...

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

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

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

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

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

""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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

Television for the AI age.

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

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

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