Jon Rafman Trailers
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Jon Rafman (born 1981) is an artist, filmmaker, and essayist. His work centers around the emotional, social and existential impact of technology on contemporary life. His artwork has gained international attention and was exhibited in 2015 at Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal. He is widely known for exhibiting found images from Google Street View in his online artwork 9-Eyes (2009-ongoing).
In September 2013, Rafman collaborated with Brooklyn-based experimental musician Oneohtrix Point Never, formally known as Daniel Lopatin, on a music video for Still Life to accompany the release of R Plus Seven on Warp Records. The two later collaborated to create a two-part music video for Sticky Drama, from Lopatin's 2015 album Garden of Delete.
Most Popular Jon Rafman Trailers
Total trailers found: 43
25 June 2021
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.
21 January 2012
In a journey that mixes cinematic genres, a legendary arcade video gamer moves seamlessly through actual and virtual space and time.
01 January 2011
Jon Rafman's short features computer-generated renders of the Twin Towers and a narration from Charles Baudelaire's "Le Guignon.
01 January 2009
""The woods of Arcady are dead, And over is their antique joy;" – with this line begins Rafman's Woods of Arcady.
01 September 2010
Rather than the charms of the lyre, contemporary technological tools, Google Street View and Google Earth, beckon as the pathway for our narrator to regain memories and recapture traces of his lost love.
01 November 2009
Short film by Jon Rafman.
24 January 2015
A compelling mix of attraction and repulsion, Mainsqueeze is entirely composed of footage found online, surfing the deep web.
01 January 2009
Kool-Aid Man in Second Life- Jon Rafman interview with Nicholas O'Brien (2009)
28 August 2005
An anonymous narrator, alone in his apartment, cannot tell if his inner life is composed of memories of dreams or memories of reality.
01 January 2015
Landscapes for Neon Parallel - Game Ambience (2015) by Jon Rafman
01 May 2017
Experimental narrative animation using hobbyist 3D animation and inspired by niche genres of computer-generated erotica.
01 January 2016
Center of a three-channel video. Narration over computer-generated landscapes and figures.
01 January 2002
Episode 1: The City of Lost Objects. Short by Jon Rafman.
30 April 2015
Erysichthon is the final element in a trilogy of videos including Still Life (Betamale) and Mainsqueeze.
01 January 2012
A king reflects about death.
08 June 2011
Dissonance of the digital and physical archive.
01 January 2012
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 kingdoms seen; Round many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.
09 December 2017
"Poor Magic effects a beautiful yet terrifying rendition of contemporary consciousness, gesturing towards civilisation's listless drift beyond the corporeal, and technology's infinite desire to penetrate and artificially replicate human essence.
31 December 2013
An essay film in the tradition of experimental documentarians like Chris Marker or Harun Farocki, Remember Carthage takes the viewer on an epic journey in search of an abandoned resort town deep in the Sahara desert.
01 January 2001
A teenage boy's epic struggle against an evil necromancer.
01 January 2010
Imago (an incomplete work) (2010) by Jon Rafman
23 September 2013
‘Still Life (Betamale)’ draws images from a range of online fetish sites, engaging with the theme of obsessive desire.
01 January 2004
Tortured by a vague memory, a man interviews three women to see if he met them in the past.
05 February 2009
Two samurais fight on a beach.
01 April 2013
Annals of Time Lost works towards illuminating the individual’s relationship to the archive and the desire for physical presence.
09 November 2018
Legendary Reality is a science-fiction essay film that portrays the recollections of a solitary narrator imprisoned in his own mind.
10 June 2013
A journey through virtual death.
13 November 2018
SHADOWBANNED (2018) uses the aesthetics of internet conspiracy theories to tell the story of an anonymous narrator on an enigmatic, transdimensional journey.
01 January 2011
Neptune's Empire: Second Life ambience (2011) by Jon Rafman Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse: And even the like precurse of fierce events, As harbingers preceding still the fates And prologue to the omen coming on, Have heaven and earth together demonstrated Unto our climatures and countrymen.
06 October 2021
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.
02 October 2022
In ᖴᗩᑕIᗩᒪᔕ I, Jon Rafman alters a selection of these unwrapped head textures and animates the transformation in the style of VFX breakdown reels, typically used to showcase the special effects in movies and games.
05 September 2019
This single-channel video explores the effects of technology and information overload on the contemporary psyche.
01 January 2005
Tales of a street historian.
04 November 2015
Featuring a cast of over 35 children, with Oneohtrix Point Never’s soundtrack, Sticky Drama portrays the development of a role-playing game set in a fantastical and violent world in which its participants struggle to preserve their memory and past histories.
11 May 2019
The film portrays a post-human dystopia featuring faceless 3-D avatars continuously tortured in abstract digital space, a terrifying image of a future where all humanity is uploaded to a virtual purgatory and endlessly abused.
25 June 2020
Nine Eyes of Google Street View: Slideshow (2020) by Jon Rafman
23 June 2022
A series of character studies by Jon Rafman, loosely inspired by reddit copypasta.
07 July 2010
Kool-Aid Man travels through a variety of worlds from the video game Second Life.
15 February 2025
Television for the AI age.
09 March 2015
Part live-action footage, video game sequences, simulated chat, poetic voiceover and virtual landscape, Neon Parallel 1996 is in Rafman’s own words an attempt at creating a “lost vaporwave classic.
08 August 2025
CLOUDY is an AI pop singer created by Canadian artist Jon Rafman.
01 January 2021
A triptych video installation exploring collective consciousness, digital entities, and internet culture.
01 January 2015
“It’s fire and it crashing! . . . This is the worst of the worst catastrophes in the world! Oh, it’s crashing .
