Pat O'Neill Movies

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

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

"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...

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

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

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

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...

New film by Pat O'Neill

16mm film installation.

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

16mm color short from Pat O'Neill

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 film by Pat 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...

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,...

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...

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

2024, digital video, color, sound, 5

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.

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