Cinematography: Pat O'Neill

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Pat O'Neill. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


Water and Power

1989 · Documentary · 57 min. · United States

Direction Pat O'Neill

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7.6

73 votes

By the Sea (S)

1963 · Documentary · 10 min. · United States

Direction Robert Abel · Pat O'Neill

Plot 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 than today. Pat O’Neill’s first film...

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An Extra Wander: for Chickie (S)

2016 · Documentary · 8 min. · United States

Direction Pat O'Neill

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Squirtgun Stepprint (S)

1998 · Documentary · 3 min. · United States

Direction Pat O'Neill

Plot O’Neill applied film developer to film stock using a squirt gun, then rearranged the results into rhythmic repetitions.

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Screen (S)

1969 · Documentary · 4 min. · United States

Direction Pat O'Neill

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Berlin 1990

2016 · Documentary · 28 min. · United States

Direction Pat O'Neill

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Trouble in the Image

1996 · Documentary · 38 min. · United States

Direction Pat O'Neill

Plot The film [is] made up of dozens of performances dislodged from other contexts. These are often relocated into contemporary industrial landscapes, or interrupted by the chopping, shredding, or flattening of...

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I Put Out My Hands (S)

2009 · Documentary · 10 min. · United States

Direction Pat O'Neill

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Painter and Ball 4-14 (S)

2011 · Documentary · 10 min. · United States

Direction Pat O'Neill

Plot '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 similar recording made...

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Horizontal Boundaries (S)

2008 · Documentary · 23 min. · United States

Direction Pat O'Neill

Plot An examination of certain aspects of the geography of California as the ground for cinematic disruption and restatement.

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Coming Down (S)

1968 · Documentary · 3 min. · United States

Direction Pat O'Neill

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13 track 13 #3 (S)

2009 · Documentary · 6 min. · United States

Direction Pat O'Neill

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Runs Good (S)

1970 · Documentary · 15 min. · United States

Direction Pat O'Neill

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

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Saugus Series (S)

1974 · Documentary · 18 min. · United States

Direction Pat O'Neill

Plot A short film by Pat O'Neill which consists of 7 sections with each one using a different experimental film technique.

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Easyout (S)

1971 · Documentary · 9 min. · United States

Direction Pat O'Neill

Plot 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 Creator, impassively observing the inexorable...

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Down Wind (S)

1973 · Documentary · 15 min. · United States

Direction Pat O'Neill

Plot A thoughtful treatment of some of the problems we (mankind) have been having in dealing with our fellow species, animal and vegetable. Actually an undercover “structural” film, this one seems...

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No Wonder/Two Skins (S)

2013 · Documentary · 10 min. · United States

Direction Pat O'Neill

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Coreopsis (S)

1998 · Documentary · 6 min. · United States

Direction Pat O'Neill

Plot 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' was made by scratching into...

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Last of the Persimmons (S)

1972 · Documentary · 6 min. · United States

Direction Pat O'Neill

Plot '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 places two mirror images an...

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Starting To Go Bad

2009 · Documentary · 30 min. · United States

Direction Pat O'Neill

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