Pat O'Neill Movies

2009 --- Digital Video --- 6 minutes --- Color --- Sound Sound: Califone

Short film by Pat O'Neill.

In this meditative film the everyday lives of poor Ethiopian peasants are shown using documentary as well as storytelling techniques, with its drama...

The title Horizontal Boundaries refers to frame lines- the boundaries between one image and the next on a roll of motion picture film. These lines,...

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...

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

"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,...

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

Pat O'Neill narrates his photographs.

2016 --- Digital Video --- 1 minute --- Color --- Sound

2024, digital video, color, sound, 5

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

2010 --- Digital Video --- 4 minutes --- Color --- Sound Sound: Califone