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.

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...

16mm color short from Pat O'Neill

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

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

16mm film installation.

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

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

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...

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...

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,...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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