Pat O'Neill
Birthday: 1939-01-01
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
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.
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Pat O'Neill
Documents the life and works of filmmaker Pat O'Neill, showing the making of a select group of films...
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Bustin' Down the Door
During the winter of 1975 in Hawaii, surfing was shaken to its core. A group of young surfers from A...
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Moving Targets
An exercise in special effects, using conventional travelling matte techniques on a contact printer....
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Sleeping Dogs (Never Lie)
The day they filled all that gravel in front of Jack and Jerry's old studio on Venice Blvd. A yello...
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Abstract Cinema
Several well-known and pioneering abstract filmmakers discuss the history of non-objective cinema, t...
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Messages 2
Short film portrait using narration and artworks by Pat O’Neill and edited by Martha Colburn....
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Messages 3
Short film portrait using narration and artworks by Pat O’Neill and edited by Martha Colburn....
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Messages
Short film portrait using narration and artworks by Pat O’Neill and edited by Martha Colburn....
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