Pat O'Neill Movies

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

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

"O'Neill found an envelope labeled 'Helen's Coreopsis' with seeds from a 1935 visit his mother had made to her sister in Nebraska. His film COREOPSIS...

A film by Pat O'Neill

"FOREGROUNDS, like SAUGUS SERIES, is devoted almost entirely to carefully constructed spatial ambiguities. The most visceral of these prints a...

Experimental film with desert scenes in which optical printing is used to achieve unusual effects.

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

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

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

New film by Pat O'Neill

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

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

The day they filled all that gravel in front of Jack and Jerry's old studio on Venice Blvd. A yellow bird fascinated by reflection. Several views...

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...

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

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

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,...

2024, digital video, color, sound, 5

A short piece of commercial work done by three legendary L.A. artists. This piece was shown on loop projectors in Sears stores to promote an exciting...

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...