Jon Rafman
Known For: Directing
Biography
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.
Filmography
2025
- Cloudy Tales. Ep. 1-5 ... (Director)
- Main Stream Media Network ... (Director)
2022
- Counterfeit Poast ... (Director)
- ᖴᗩᑕIᗩᒪᔕ I ... (Director)
2021
- Minor Daemon, Vol. 1 ... (Director)
- Punctured Sky ... (Director)
- EGREGORES ... (Director)
2020
- Nine Eyes of Google Street View: Slideshow ... (Director)
2019
- Dream Journal 2016–2019 ... (Editor)
- Disasters Under the Sun ... (Director)
2018
- SHADOWBANNED ... (Director)
- Legendary Reality as Narrator
2017
- Poor Magic ... (Director)
- Dream Journal, May 2016-February 2017 ... (Director)
2016
- Open Heart Warrior ... (Director)
2015
- Sticky Drama ... (Director)
- Landscapes for Neon Parallel - Game Ambience ... (Director)
- Mainsqueeze as (voice)
- Oh, the humanity! ... (Director)
- Erysichthon ... (Director)
- Neon Parallel 1996 ... (Director)
2013
- Still Life (Betamale) ... (Writer)
- Annals of Time Lost ... (Director)
- Remember Carthage ... (Writer)
- A Man Digging ... (Director)
2012
- In the Realms of Gold ... (Director)
- Codes of Honor ... (Director)
- King of the Rain-Country ... (Director)
2011
- Le Guignon ... (Director)
- Neptune’s Empire: Second Life ambience ... (Director)
- Deities & Demigods ... (Director)
2010
- Kool-Aid Man in Second Life ... (Director)
- You, the World and I ... (Director)
- Imago (an incomplete work) ... (Director)
2009
- Jon Rafman Conversation with Nicholas O’Brien, Kool-Aid Man in Second Life ... (Director)
- Tokyo Color Drifter ... (Director)
- DU3L ... (Director)
- Woods of Arcady ... (Director)
2005
- News from the Madhatter ... (Director)
- Ad-vice for a Prophet ... (Director)
2004
- City Girls ... (Director)
2002
- lost tapes: the adventures of my keys ... (Director)
2001
- Day of Reckoning ... (Director)