Jon Rafman Movies

In 2006, To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen sets out to make television history. When a high stakes operation goes fatally wrong, his veneered...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

Dissonance of the digital and physical archive.

Television for the AI age.