Pat O'Neill Movies

A film by Pat O'Neill

2024, digital video, color, sound, 5

16mm color short from Pat O'Neill

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

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

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...

16mm film installation.

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.

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

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

"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...

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

New film by Pat O'Neill

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...

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

A thoughtful treatment of some of the problems we (mankind) have been having in dealing with our fellow species, animal and vegetable. Actually an...

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

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 --- 19 minutes --- Color --- Sound Sound Mix: George Lockwood

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...