Pat O'Neill Movies

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...

The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles serves as the backdrop of Pat O’Neill’s artfully-crafted film. Shot in the classic Hollywood style,...

Les Blank's first documentary cinematography job shooting Drag Racers in Long Beach, CA, driving everything from hopped up "Mercs" to Supercharged...

"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...

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...

Television programming takes it on the chin in this ribald spoof of the networks.

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

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...

2017 --- Digital Video --- 5 minutes --- Color --- Sound

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

2016 --- Digital Video --- 28 minutes --- Color --- Sound

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

A film by Pat O'Neill

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,...

2024, digital video, color, sound, 5

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...

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...

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

Short film by Pat O'Neill.