Pat O'Neill Movies

"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...

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...

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

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

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

New film by Pat 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...

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.

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

16mm film installation.

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...

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

A 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...

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

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

16mm color short from Pat O'Neill

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