Pat O'Neill Movies

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,...

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...

"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...

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

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

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

A darkish journey down memory lane, to visit some news events, folkways and thought patterns associated with the late forties and early fifties. The...

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

2024, digital video, color, sound, 5

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

Pat O'Neill narrates his photographs.

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...

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,...

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

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...

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

A film by Pat O'Neill

"O'Neill found an envelope labeled 'Helen's Coreopsis' with seeds from a 1935 visit his mother had made to her sister in Nebraska. His film COREOPSIS...