Jon Rafman Movies

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

A king reflects about death.

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

“It’s fire and it crashing! . . . This is the worst of the worst catastrophes in the world! Oh, it’s crashing . . . oh, four or...

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

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

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

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

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

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

A triptych video installation exploring collective consciousness, digital entities, and internet culture.

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

Two samurais fight on a beach.

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

Tales of a street historian.

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

Short film by Jon Rafman.

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

In ᖴᗩᑕIᗩᒪᔕ I, Jon Rafman alters a selection of these unwrapped head textures and animates the transformation in...