Jon Rafman Movies

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

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

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

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

Dissonance of the digital and physical archive.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Composed of a sequence of character-study vignettes, Counterfeit Poast explores the interrelation of crafted online identities and memories with...

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

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

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...

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...

Two samurais fight on a beach.

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