Screenplay: Pat O'Neill

Direction Pat O'Neill

Plot A bilaterally symmetrical (west to east) fusion of human, biomorphic and mechanical shapes in motion.

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...

Direction Pat O'Neill

Direction Pat O'Neill

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

Direction Pat O'Neill

Direction Pat O'Neill

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...

Direction Pat O'Neill

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...

Direction Pat O'Neill

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

Direction Pat O'Neill

Direction Pat O'Neill

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...

Direction Pat O'Neill

Cast Jaime Alvarez · Lilia Barsegian · Dan Bell · Damon Collazo

Plot L.A.'s legendary Ambassador Hotel provides the backdrop for director Pat O'Neill's avant-garde film, which superimposes reenactments of classic Hollywood films onto shots of the dilapidated establishment.

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.

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...

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...

Direction Pat O'Neill

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...

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...