Pat O'Neill Movies

A thoughtful treatment of some of the problems we (mankind) have been having in dealing with our fellow species, animal and vegetable. Actually an...

LAST OF THE PERSIMMONS opens with a black-and-white image of a main inflating helium balloons in the shape of rabbits. Onto this image Mr. O'Neill...

As a number of critics have pointed out, the title of O'Neill's film Let's Make a Sandwich refers not only to one of the pieces of found footage that...

New film by Pat O'Neill

Pat O'Neill narrates his photographs made between 1965 & 1975 approx.

Optical printing pioneer Pat O’Neill uses “his skills in special effects production to extrapolate metaphysical meaning from the...

"Muscle Beach is a fascinating location for people-watching in the L.A. area, and in 1963, the strangeness of its sights was much more pronounced...

2009 --- Digital Video --- 10 minutes --- Color --- Sound Sound Mix: George Lockwood

"Bump City is a colour film about the symbolic destruction of Los Angeles. It was never a very finished film, but it was about signs and advertising,...

16mm film installation.

Short film portrait using narration and artworks by Pat O’Neill and edited by Martha Colburn.

2009 --- Digital Video --- 30 minutes --- Color --- Sound Sound Mix: George Lockwood

Painter and Ball 4-14 is a composite of several simultaneous intentions. The first is a record of the passage of days and seasons: the second is a...

Ojo Caliente (hot eye) depicts a site in a reddish sandstone desert; the remains of a settlement apparently dedicated to the manufacture of solid...

A film by Pat O'Neill

2009 --- Digital Video --- 19 minutes --- Color --- Sound Sound Mix: George Lockwood

An exercise in special effects, using conventional travelling matte techniques on a contact printer. A small box (whose classic dimensions animators...

16mm color short from Pat O'Neill

Documents the life and works of filmmaker Pat O'Neill, showing the making of a select group of films and discussion of these films by O'Neill.

O’Neill applied film developer to film stock using a squirt gun, then rearranged the results into rhythmic repetitions.