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...

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

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

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

Documents the life and works of filmmaker Pat O'Neill, showing the making of a select group of films and discussion of these films by 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,...

"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...

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

New film by Pat O'Neill

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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