Jon Rafman Movies

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

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

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.

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

Landscapes for Neon Parallel - Game Ambience (2015) 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...

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

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...

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

Oh, the humanity! (2015) by Jon Rafman

A king reflects about death.

Dissonance of the digital and physical archive.

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

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

Tales of a street historian.

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...

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