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Pat O'Neill is an American independent experimental filmmaker and artist who has also worked in the special effects industry. Although his work embraces an extremely wide technical and aesthetic scope, he is perhaps best known for his startling, surrealistic, and humorous film compositions achieved through a mastery of the optical printer. His films and other artworks often reveal a complex and mysterious interest in the connections and clashes between the natural world and human civilization. O'Neill has also produced a prodigious body of work in drawing, collage, sculpture, installation, and many other media.
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01 January 1965
Les Blank's first documentary cinematography job shooting Drag Racers in Long Beach, CA, driving everything from hopped up "Mercs" to Supercharged "Rail Dragsters".
24 June 1993
Several well-known and pioneering abstract filmmakers discuss the history of non-objective cinema, the works of those that came before them and their own experiments in the field of visionary filmmaking.
10 June 2021
Pat O'Neill narrates his photographs made between 1965 & 1975 approx.
01 January 1976
An exercise in special effects, using conventional travelling matte techniques on a contact printer. A small box (whose classic dimensions animators using an Oxberry field guide will recognize) moves across the screen revealing certain objets d'interest, hiding others and performing other tricks.
09 August 1963
"Muscle Beach is a fascinating location for people-watching in the L.A. area, and in 1963, the strangeness of its sights was much more pronounced than today.
20 March 1998
O’Neill applied film developer to film stock using a squirt gun, then rearranged the results into rhythmic repetitions.
14 June 2009
2009 --- Digital Video --- 10 minutes --- Color --- Sound
Sound Mix: George Lockwood
02 October 2012
Ojo Caliente (hot eye) depicts a site in a reddish sandstone desert; the remains of a settlement apparently dedicated to the manufacture of solid objects.
18 February 2021
Short film portrait using narration and artworks by Pat O’Neill and edited by Martha Colburn.
14 June 2009
2009 --- Digital Video --- 19 minutes --- Color --- Sound
Sound Mix: George Lockwood
09 August 1978
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.
01 January 1972
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.
09 August 1964
"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, redundant communications and manufacturing, waste and monotony.
29 January 2021
Short film portrait using narration and artworks by Pat O’Neill and edited by Martha Colburn.
27 January 2019
New film by Pat O'Neill
14 June 2009
2009 --- Digital Video --- 30 minutes --- Color --- Sound
Sound Mix: George Lockwood
01 January 1968
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 and new young ladies' clothing line.
08 July 2021
Pat O'Neill narrates his photographs.
13 December 2020
Short film portrait using narration and artworks by Pat O’Neill and edited by Martha Colburn.
01 January 2011
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 similar recording made by another artist some thirty years previously: the third, an animation of a headless and limbless homunculus.
13 December 2015
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 lights of the Los Angeles avant-garde, whose pioneering use of the optical printer marked a creative breakthrough in composite image-making in cinema.
23 June 1974
Television programming takes it on the chin in this ribald spoof of the networks.
25 July 2008
During the winter of 1975 in Hawaii, surfing was shaken to its core. A group of young surfers from Australia and South Africa sacrificed everything and put it all on the line to create a sport, a culture, and an industry that is today worth billions of dollars and has captured the imagination of the world.
11 May 1972
LAST OF THE PERSIMMONS opens with a black-and-white image of a main inflating helium balloons in the shape of rabbits.
01 September 1975
In this meditative film the everyday lives of poor Ethiopian peasants are shown using documentary as well as storytelling techniques, with its drama arising out of the timeless yet persistent issues of their lives.
01 January 1967
7362 is concerned with dividing and joining together. It begins with two black circles against a white background, knocking together and gradually moving further apart.
28 April 2024
2024, digital video, color, sound, 5
01 January 1968
16mm color short from Pat O'Neill, music video for The United States of America
03 October 1976
Experimental film with desert scenes in which optical printing is used to achieve unusual effects.
01 January 2013
O'Neill's subtle and ethereal footage juxtaposes images drawn from the Prelinger Archives as well as clips from education films from the 1940s and 1950s.
12 October 2002
The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles serves as the backdrop of Pat O’Neill’s artfully-crafted film.
01 October 1989
A reflection between nature and man in Los Angeles about the city's surroundings' desertification due to enormous water consumption.
01 January 2008
A look back at the hotel where The Decay of Fiction (2002) was filmed, at the time of its demolition.
20 March 1998
"O'Neill found an envelope labeled 'Helen's Coreopsis' with seeds from a 1935 visit his mother had made to her sister in Nebraska.
20 March 2008
The title Horizontal Boundaries refers to frame lines- the boundaries between one image and the next on a roll of motion picture film.
09 March 1971
A darkish journey down memory lane, to visit some news events, folkways and thought patterns associated with the late forties and early fifties.
03 February 1972
Has to do with a consideration of one possible conceptual model for human existence: that of a primitive form of yardchair, upon which sits The Creator, impassively observing the inexorable flow of His mountains.
01 January 2008
2008 --- Digital Video --- 7 minutes --- Color --- Sound
01 January 2016
2016 --- Digital Video --- 28 minutes --- Color --- Sound
20 March 1996
Optical printing pioneer Pat O’Neill uses “his skills in special effects production to extrapolate metaphysical meaning from the ordinariness of industrialized culture” (Scott Stark).
20 March 1978
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 make up the film, but to the process of its making, to the layers and sandwiching of the image.
20 March 1978
"FOREGROUNDS, like SAUGUS SERIES, is devoted almost entirely to carefully constructed spatial ambiguities.
01 January 2016
2016 --- Digital Video --- 1 minute --- Color --- Silent
01 January 2016
2016 --- Digital Video --- 1 minute --- Color --- Sound
17 March 1973
A thoughtful treatment of some of the problems we (mankind) have been having in dealing with our fellow species, animal and vegetable.
01 January 2009
2009 --- Digital Video --- 6 minutes --- Color --- Sound
Sound: Califone
01 January 2009
2010 --- Digital Video --- 4 minutes --- Color --- Sound
Sound: Califone
20 March 1974
Short film of 7 sections with each one using a different experimental film technique.
01 January 2017
2017 --- Digital Video --- 5 minutes --- Color --- Sound
20 March 1979
A film by Pat O'Neill
20 March 1969
16mm film installation.
