Pat O'Neill Movies

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

Unique story of a village's attempts to solve drought by appealing to the powers of a mysterious mountain-dwelling diviner.

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

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...

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...

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

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

Short film by Pat O'Neill.

A film by Pat O'Neill

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

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

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...

16mm film installation.

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