James Ferraro

A haunting ghost story set against the backdrop of a busy winter sales period in a department store, following the life of a cursed dress as it passes from person to person, with devastating consequences.

Desperate for an online following, a rideshare driver has figured out a deadly plan to go viral and he will stop at nothing to get his five minutes of fame.

James Ferraro's sci-fi/crime/action story made up from a hodgepodge of old miscellaneous video footage strung together. OFFICIAL "Storyline" description off the VHS: Set in a crime-ridden Rochester, New York in the near future, RAPTURE ADRENALINE centers on a police officer who is brutally murdered and subsequently re-created as a super-human cyborg. The main plot of the movie revolved around a "Bug' (code word for a member of an alien species that is similar in many ways to a very large cockroach) searching for a miniature galaxy which is also a vast energy source.

This story takes place in a far distant time, a time of violence. All throughout Europe, a war was spreading. In a city there lived two sisters...

When Doug - a hapless employee at a VR startup - is forced to work the night shift, he becomes fast friends with a squatting vagrant named Stick. Increasingly belittled by his domineering wife, Vera, and the company's reckless owner, Vikas, Doug falls under Stick's charming spell over the course of several delirious nights. As the two of them bond over the nature of reality, virtual and otherwise, Stick begins empowering Doug to take back control of his life...but to what end?

CGI collage short film originally premiered as part of the 'Extinction Renaissance' exhibition at the Loyal Gallery in Stockholm.

Sophia Antipolis: a technopole on the French Riviera, a place where dreams should come true. But fear and despair lurk beneath the surface. Under a deceitful sun, five lives map out the haunting story of a young woman: Sophia.

Ground Zero

A shopping center in the middle of montains, pyramides of goods, a glass tower dedicated to bodycare, Andorra makes bright promises of modern happiness. But when night comes, streets fall again into silence and Andorra shines again only for itself.

Experimental narrative animation using hobbyist 3D animation and inspired by niche genres of computer-generated erotica.

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An awkward teen develops a crush on a salesman visiting her father's parish.

This single-channel video explores the effects of technology and information overload on the contemporary psyche. Set in a virtual tech-noir urban space populated by strange hybrids of non-humans and augmented people, part of the expansive, fractured narrative focuses on the continued adventures of Xanax Girl and her search for her companion—a hybrid dog/seal with the head of a boy—who has been abducted. The film, which arose from the artist’s daily practice of animating his dreams using hobbyist 3D software, weaves together deep-web imagery with hardboiled detective story tropes and repressed libidinal fantasies to create a nightmarish vision of an internet addict’s unconscious. The film features an original score by Oneohtrix Point Never and James Ferraro.

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. It traces the intersecting fortunes of two young men, Billy and Minor Daemon, who share an extraordinary gift for virtual reality gaming and go through a series of nightmarish events.

Medley of tracks from the "Grippers Nother Onesers (At Slimer Beach)" l.p. on Olde English Spelling Bee. Grippers Nother Onesers is a channeling of teenage mutant glue sniffing psycho dreams, a prelude to the psychotic beach bum depression induced by junkfood and huffing siphoned gas out of the Oscar Meyer mobile.

In the middle of the night, in an anonymous street in a parisian suburb, an old woman roams. Her only company is her own voice: her memories, her impressions, her lunacy.

The libertarian vigilante hero complex of Neil Breen meets the dreary ambient Americana of James Ferraro, creating a tragic tapestry of nationalistic fantasy.

THE DISTORTION IN DREAMS ACTS AS DECORATIONS, WORN BY ITS SYMBOLIC BODY (THE DREAMS ACTUAL THEMATIC MANIFESTATION AND THE INTERPRETATION OF PARTICULAR WAKING LIFE EVENTS, NAMELY THOSE WITH THEMATICLY CONNECTED ZONES (CONSEQUENTIAL WAKING LIFE EVENTS)). THE CONTEMPLATION OF THESE DREAM ACTIVITIES LEADS TO A CONCEPTION OF THE PRINCIPLE NATURE OF DREAMS, WHICH IS TO TAKE THE EVENTS IN WAKING LFIE AND ABSTRACT AND DECONSTRUCT THEM INTO THE STRANGEST MOST TERRIFYINGLY MYSTICAL MIND TO BEILEVE WE HAVE FOUND INSIDE OURSELVES AN ALIEN CONSCIOUSNESS AND WE HAVE BUT, IT IS ALSO THE MINDS ETERNAL RICVER OF SYMBOLS, A PHENOMENON IN ITSELF THAT CREATES A MOTIVE FOR THIS WORK TO REVOLVE INTO ACTIVATION

An interview with the author and, at the same time, an exciting voyage through some cult virtual-hyper-reality-simulacro. The OJ chase, Hollywood forever cemetery, Dr. Phil are just some ingredients of this delicious visual trippy cake.

Xerces Blau (the title refers to Glaucopsyche xerces, an extinct butterfly species) expounds on the themes visited by Ferraro on his latest album Requiem for Recycled, released in spring 2019, with both pieces reflecting on human civilization’s intervention into natural processes and its impact on the course of evolution. The four-part visuals, developed with the implementation of machine learning, feature dynamic hybrid imagery in which shots of butterflies and plants are overlaid with scary views of environmental catastrophes, real and fictional man-made landscapes, random urban photographs, and reproductions of artworks. By mixing together the natural and the anthropogenic, Miller visualizes the feeling of overabundance resulting from cultural and technical overproduction.