Pat O'Neill Movies

  • 1989
    Water and Power

    Water and Power

    Water and Power

    71989HD

    Pat O'Neill, one of the most interesting filmmakers in America today, offers a dazzling reflection on the conflict between nature and man in Los...

    Water and Power
  • 2008
    Bustin' Down the Door

    Bustin' Down the Door

    Bustin' Down the Door

    62008HD

    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...

    Bustin' Down the Door
  • 2002
    The Decay of Fiction

    The Decay of Fiction

    The Decay of Fiction

    7.52002HD

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

    The Decay of Fiction
  • 1965
    Seven Second Love Affair

    Seven Second Love Affair

    Seven Second Love Affair

    01965HD

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

    Seven Second Love Affair
  • 1974
    Saugus Series

    Saugus Series

    Saugus Series

    5.61974HD

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

    Saugus Series
  • 1971
    Runs Good

    Runs Good

    Runs Good

    5.91971HD

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

    Runs Good
  • 2008
    Horizontal Boundaries

    Horizontal Boundaries

    Horizontal Boundaries

    72008HD

    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,...

    Horizontal Boundaries
  • 1972
    Easyout

    Easyout

    Easyout

    5.21972HD

    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...

    Easyout
  • 2015
    Where the Chocolate Mountains

    Where the Chocolate Mountains

    Where the Chocolate Mountains

    02015HD

    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...

    Where the Chocolate Mountains
  • 1976
    Sidewinders Delta

    Sidewinders Delta

    Sidewinders Delta

    8.21976HD

    Experimental film with desert scenes in which optical printing is used to achieve unusual effects.

    Sidewinders Delta
  • 1973
    Down Wind

    Down Wind

    Down Wind

    8.81973HD

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

    Down Wind
  • 1964
    Bump City

    Bump City

    Bump City

    51964HD

    "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,...

    Bump City
  • 1967
    7362

    7362

    7362

    7.81967HD

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

    7362
  • 1998
    Coreopsis

    Coreopsis

    Coreopsis

    91998HD

    "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...

    Coreopsis
  • 2009
    I Put Out My Hands

    I Put Out My Hands

    I Put Out My Hands

    02009HD

    2009 --- Digital Video --- 10 minutes --- Color --- Sound Sound Mix: George Lockwood

    I Put Out My Hands
  • 1978
    Foregrounds

    Foregrounds

    Foregrounds

    8.31978HD

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

    Foregrounds
  • 2021
    Messages 4

    Messages 4

    Messages 4

    02021HD

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

    Messages 4
  • 2021
    Messages 2

    Messages 2

    Messages 2

    02021HD

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

    Messages 2
  • 1969
    Screen

    Screen

    Screen

    11969HD

    16mm film installation.

    Screen
  • 2024
    Preen Scene

    Preen Scene

    Preen Scene

    02024HD

    2024, digital video, color, sound, 5

    Preen Scene