Jon Rafman Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

A king reflects about death.

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

An unseen narrator reunites with his old friend Joey Bernstein in the dingy back room of a comic and games store located in a dead mall. Bernstein...

Two samurais fight on a beach.

Dissonance of the digital and physical archive.

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...

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

Tales of a street historian.

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

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