In 1994, Graham began a series of films and videos in which he himself appears as the principal character: "Halcion Sleep" (1994), "Vexation Island" (1997) (shown at Canadian pavilion of the 1997 Venice Biennale), "How I Became a Ramblin' Man" (1999), and "The Phonokinetoscope" (2002). In "The Phonokinetoscope" Graham's engagement with the origins of cinema and its eventual demise surface. In this work, Graham takes up a prototype by Thomas Edison and puts forward an argument for the relation between sound and image in film.