Pat O'Neill Movies

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

2008 --- Digital Video --- 7 minutes --- Color --- Sound

"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,...

"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...

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

16mm color short from Pat O'Neill, music video for The United States of America

Pat O'Neill narrates his photographs.

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

2009 --- Digital Video --- 30 minutes --- Color --- Sound Sound Mix: George Lockwood

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...

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