Pat O'Neill Movies

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

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

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...

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...

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

16mm color short from Pat O'Neill

16mm film installation.

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

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

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

New film by Pat O'Neill

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

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

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

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

"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,...

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.

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

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