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...

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

New film by Pat O'Neill

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

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,...

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...

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

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

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

16mm color short from Pat O'Neill

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

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...

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...

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...

2009 --- Digital Video --- 19 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,...

A film by Pat O'Neill

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

2024, digital video, color, sound, 5

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