Jackson Murphy is a New York City–based filmmaker, photographer, and designer whose work explores the fragile boundary between inner reality and the external world. Across narrative film and still imagery, his art interrogates identity, mental health, addiction, isolation, and the quiet psychological horror embedded in everyday life. Rather than relying on spectacle, Jackson uses discomfort, surrealism, and emotional intimacy to reveal how easily perception fractures—and how often our greatest antagonist is the self.

Drawing inspiration from psychological thrillers and socially conscious cinema, his work lives in liminal spaces: elevators, empty houses, dark bedrooms, laundromats, streets at night—ordinary environments where something internal begins to unravel. His films often depict characters caught at moments of rupture: confronting addiction, obsessive control, inherited trauma, self-division, or sudden loss of certainty. These stories function less as traditional narratives and more as psychological descent, mirroring how the mind distorts reality under pressure.

His photography expands these themes through collections that examine connection (BOND), illusion (DELUSION), isolation (SOLITUDE), and transitional states (LIMINALITY). Whether documenting human relationships or empty, uncanny spaces, Jackson’s images invite viewers to sit with ambiguity—to question what is real, what is projected, and what exists in between. Together, his work forms a cohesive body of art concerned with one central question: what happens when we are forced to look directly at ourselves, without distraction, certainty, or escape?