Pat O'Neill Movies

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

Short film of 7 sections with each one using a different experimental film technique.

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

"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,...

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

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

Pat O'Neill narrates his photographs.

The title Horizontal Boundaries refers to frame lines- the boundaries between one image and the next on a roll of motion picture film. These lines,...

A darkish journey down memory lane, to visit some news events, folkways and thought patterns associated with the late forties and early fifties. The...

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...

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

"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...

A reflection between nature and man in Los Angeles about the city's surroundings' desertification due to enormous water consumption.

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

In this meditative film the everyday lives of poor Ethiopian peasants are shown using documentary as well as storytelling techniques, with its drama...

7362 is concerned with dividing and joining together. It begins with two black circles against a white background, knocking together and gradually...

2009 --- Digital Video --- 6 minutes --- Color --- Sound Sound: Califone

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.

2010 --- Digital Video --- 4 minutes --- Color --- Sound Sound: Califone

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