Pat O'Neill Movies

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...

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...

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 --- 19 minutes --- Color --- Sound Sound Mix: George Lockwood

16mm color short from Pat O'Neill

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

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...

2009 --- Digital Video --- 10 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

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...

16mm film installation.

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

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

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

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

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,...

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