Pat O'Neill Movies

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

2024, digital video, color, sound, 5

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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...

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,...

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

Short film by Pat O'Neill.

"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...