Pat O'Neill Movies

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

Pat O'Neill narrates his photographs.

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

During the winter of 1975 in Hawaii, surfing was shaken to its core. A group of young surfers from Australia and South Africa sacrificed everything...

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

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

The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles serves as the backdrop of Pat O’Neill’s artfully-crafted film. Shot in the classic Hollywood style,...

Les Blank's first documentary cinematography job shooting Drag Racers in Long Beach, CA, driving everything from hopped up "Mercs" to Supercharged...

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

"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...

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...

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

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

A tour de force of digital art, Where the Chocolate Mountains (2015, 55 min.) is a major new opus from Pat O’Neill, one of the all-time guiding...

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

Has to do with a consideration of one possible conceptual model for human existence: that of a primitive form of yardchair, upon which sits The...

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.

Several well-known and pioneering abstract filmmakers discuss the history of non-objective cinema, the works of those that came before them and their...

A film by Pat O'Neill