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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pat O'Neill narrates his photographs.

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

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

16mm film installation.

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

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

"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...

2008 --- Digital Video --- 7 minutes --- Color --- Sound

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

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

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...