Pat O'Neill Movies

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

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...

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

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

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

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

"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...

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

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...

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...

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.

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

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 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...

New film by Pat O'Neill

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...

Pat O'Neill narrates his photographs.