Pat O'Neill Movies

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

2024, digital video, color, sound, 5

New film by Pat O'Neill

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...

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 color short from Pat O'Neill, music video for The United States of America

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...

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...

"Bump City is a colour film about the symbolic destruction of Los Angeles. It was never a very finished film, but it was about signs and advertising,...

Optical printing pioneer Pat O’Neill uses “his skills in special effects production to extrapolate metaphysical meaning from the...

2016 --- Digital Video --- 28 minutes --- Color --- Sound

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...

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

2010 --- Digital Video --- 4 minutes --- Color --- Sound Sound: Califone

A look back at the hotel where The Decay of Fiction (2002) was filmed, at the time of its demolition.

Ojo Caliente (hot eye) depicts a site in a reddish sandstone desert; the remains of a settlement apparently dedicated to the manufacture of solid...

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.

2009 --- Digital Video --- 19 minutes --- Color --- Sound Sound Mix: George Lockwood