Pat O'Neill
Born: 1939-01-01 in Los Angeles, California, USA
Known For: Directing
Biography
Pat O'Neill is an American independent experimental filmmaker and artist who has also worked in the special effects industry. Although his work embraces an extremely wide technical and aesthetic scope, he is perhaps best known for his startling, surrealistic, and humorous film compositions achieved through a mastery of the optical printer. His films and other artworks often reveal a complex and mysterious interest in the connections and clashes between the natural world and human civilization. O'Neill has also produced a prodigious body of work in drawing, collage, sculpture, installation, and many other media.
Filmography
2026
- Skies ... (Director)
2024
- Preen Scene ... (Director)
2021
- Messages 3 as Narrator
- Messages 4 as Himself (voice)
- Messages 5 as Himself (voice)
- Messages 2 as Narrator
2020
- Messages as Narration
2019
- "An Extra Wander: For Chick..." ... (Director)
2017
- Pharmaceutical Abstractions ... (Director)
2016
- Berlin 1990 ... (Director)
- BAMPFA 2016 ... (Director)
- Western Gray Squirrel ... (Director)
2015
- Where the Chocolate Mountains ... (Director)
2013
- No Wonder / Two Skins ... (Director)
2012
- Ojo Caliente ... (Director)
2011
- Painter and Ball 4-14 ... (Director)
2009
- 5 track 5 xfer ... (Director)
- 13 track 13 #3 ... (Director)
- Starting to Go Bad ... (Director)
- I Open the Window ... (Director)
- I Put Out My Hands ... (Director)
2008
- Bustin' Down the Door as Self
- Ambassador Teardown ... (Director)
- Pittsburgh Piano ... (Director)
- Horizontal Boundaries ... (Director)
2002
- The Decay of Fiction ... (Director)
1998
- Coreopsis ... (Director)
- Squirtgun / Step Print ... (Director)
1996
- Trouble in the Image ... (Director)
1993
- Abstract Cinema as Himself
1989
- Water and Power ... (Director)
1979
- Two Sweeps ... (Director)
1978
- Sleeping Dogs (Never Lie)
- Foregrounds ... (Director)
- Let's Make a Sandwich ... (Director)
1976
- Moving Targets
- Sidewinder's Delta ... (Director)
1975
- Harvest: 3,000 Years ... (Visual Effects)
- The Big Con ... (Writer)
1974
- The Groove Tube ... (Animation)
- Saugus Series ... (Director)
1973
- Down Wind ... (Director)
1972
- The Last of the Persimmons ... (Director)
- Easyout ... (Director)
- Pat O'Neill as himself
1971
- Runs Good ... (Director)
1969
- Screen ... (Director)
1968
- Coming Down ... (Director)
- Sears Sox ... (Director)
1967
- 7362 ... (Director)
1965
- Seven Second Love Affair ... (Additional Photography)
1964
- Bump City ... (Director)
1963
- By the Sea ... (Director)