Pat O'Neill Movies

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

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

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...

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.

New film by Pat O'Neill

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

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

16mm color short from Pat O'Neill

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

A film by Pat O'Neill

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...

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...

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

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

"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,...

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...

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

2024, digital video, color, sound, 5

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