Pat O'Neill Movies

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

"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,...

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

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 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

New film by Pat O'Neill

"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...

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

16mm film installation.

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.