Jon Rafman Movies

""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...

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

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

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

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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...

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

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

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

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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...

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

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

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

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

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A compelling mix of attraction and repulsion, Mainsqueeze is entirely composed of footage found online, surfing the deep web.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jon Rafman

A compelling mix of attraction and repulsion, Mainsqueeze is entirely composed of footage found online, surfing the deep web.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jon Rafman

Tales of a street historian.

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

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

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

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Oh, the humanity! (2015) by Jon Rafman

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

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

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

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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...

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

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

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

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Sanda Simona

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...

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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...

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

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

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Legendary Reality is a science-fiction essay film that portrays the recollections of a solitary narrator imprisoned in his own mind. Using a...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Jon Rafman

Legendary Reality is a science-fiction essay film that portrays the recollections of a solitary narrator imprisoned in his own mind. Using a...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Jon Rafman

Legendary Reality is a science-fiction essay film that portrays the recollections of a solitary narrator imprisoned in his own mind. Using a...

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Cast: Jon Rafman

A journey through virtual death.

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"Poor Magic effects a beautiful yet terrifying rendition of contemporary consciousness, gesturing towards civilisation's listless drift beyond the...

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Experimental narrative animation using hobbyist 3D animation and inspired by niche genres of computer-generated erotica.

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Short film by Jon Rafman.

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

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A king reflects about death.

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

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SHADOWBANNED (2018) uses the aesthetics of internet conspiracy theories to tell the story of an anonymous narrator on an enigmatic, transdimensional...

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

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

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

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

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Two samurais fight on a beach.

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Dissonance of the digital and physical archive.

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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...

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