Pat O'Neill Movies

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

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

16mm color short from Pat O'Neill

New film by Pat O'Neill

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

The day they filled all that gravel in front of Jack and Jerry's old studio on Venice Blvd. A yellow bird fascinated by reflection. Several views...

"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,...

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

A 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...

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

"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.

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

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.