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