Movies

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

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

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...

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

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

A journey through virtual death.

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

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

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

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

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

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

""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...

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

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

Two samurais fight on a beach.

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

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