Pat O'Neill Movies

Television programming takes it on the chin in this ribald spoof of the networks.

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...

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

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

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...

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

O'Neill's subtle and ethereal footage juxtaposes images drawn from the Prelinger Archives as well as clips from education films from the 1940s and...

A film by Pat O'Neill

2016 --- Digital Video --- 28 minutes --- Color --- Sound

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 --- 6 minutes --- Color --- Sound Sound: Califone

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

A look back at the hotel where The Decay of Fiction (2002) was filmed, at the time of its demolition.

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

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

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...

2024, digital video, color, sound, 5

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...