Pat O'Neill Movies

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...

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

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

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

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

Pat O'Neill narrates his photographs.

"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...

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...

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...

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

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.

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

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

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

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

"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...

16mm film installation.

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

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

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