21 min
Latest film · 2021
Punctured Sky
A man searches for a half-remembered virtual world that seems to have vanished from every record, drifting through online communities and digital ruins in pursuit of it.
Experimental · 21 min · 8.3K views
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21 min
Punctured Sky
2021 · Experimental · 8.3K views
A man searches for a half-remembered virtual world that seems to have vanished from every record, drifting through online communities and digital ruins in pursuit of it.
8 min
Disasters Under the Sun
2019 · Experimental · 9.8K views
Digital crowds and ruined landscapes collide in an apocalyptic CGI vision of mob behaviour and survival in the age of social media.
8 min
Shadowbanned
2018 · Experimental · 27K views
A drifting narrator addresses a lost someone while wandering endless, dissolving virtual landscapes where nothing dies, only gets abandoned.
16 min
Legendary Reality
2017 · Experimental · 36K views
A dreamlike, voice-over-led video essay in which memories, a city and the words of a poet fuse into a digital tapestry.
2 min
Dream Journal 29 May 2016
2016 · Experimental · 12K views
A brief entry from Jon Rafman's Dream Journal, rendering one night's dream as crude, uncanny 3D animation.
21 min
Oh, the humanity!
2015 · Experimental · 10K views
Video artist Jon Rafman's meditation on catastrophe and the human condition, titled after the famous Hindenburg broadcast.
8 min
Erysichthon
2015 · Experimental · 6.1K views
Over a stream of internet imagery, a second-person voiceover drifts through exhaustion, dreams and the idea that to exist is to devour oneself.
11 min
Neon Parallel 1996
2015 · Experimental · 7K views
Presented as a mysterious VHS tape bought from a garage sale via eBay, an unexplained 1996 video unfolds with no known origins.
3 min
Dream Journal 27 Feb 2015
2015 · Experimental · 10K views
A short fragment from artist Jon Rafman's ongoing dream-journal project, where crude 3D animation turns a single night's dream into a drifting, uncanny digital landscape.
8 min
A Man Digging
2013 · Experimental · 7.3K views
Drifting through the frozen crime scenes of a video game, a narrator meditates on memory, nostalgia and the edge of the real.
14 min
Remember Carthage
2013 · Experimental · 6.9K views
A drifter recounts a strange pilgrimage from Las Vegas to the desert and beyond, told through hauntingly empty video-game landscapes.
14 min
Codes of Honor
2011 · Documentary · 7K views
An elegiac video essay on New York's Chinatown Fair arcade and the legendary fighting-game players who made it their battleground.
6 min
You, the World and I
2010 · Experimental · 26K views
A narrator scours Google Street View and Google Earth for traces of a lost love, in a modern retelling of Orpheus and Eurydice.
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