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