Pat O'Neill

Known for: Directing
Born: January 1, 1939, Los Angeles, California, USA
Movies: 56

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.

Best-Known Movies

7.1

Water and Power

1989

5.5

Easyout

1972

5.8

Saugus Series

1974

6.0

Runs Good

1971

7.8

7362

1967

7.2

Horizontal Boundaries

2008

7.9

Foregrounds

1978

8.5

Sidewinder's Delta

1976

8.4

Down Wind

1973

7.2

The Decay of Fiction

2002

Filmography

2021	Messages 5	Himself (voice)
2021	Messages 4	Himself (voice)
2021	Messages 3	Narrator
2021	Messages 2	Narrator
2020	Messages	Narration
2008	Bustin' Down the Door	Self
1993	Abstract Cinema	Himself
1978	Sleeping Dogs (Never Lie)
1976	Moving Targets
1972	Pat O'Neill	himself

Directing, Writing & Producing

2026	Skies	Director
2024	Preen Scene	Director
2021	Messages 5	Director
2021	Messages 4	Director
2021	Messages 3	Director
2021	Messages 2	Director
2020	Messages	Director
2019	"An Extra Wander: For Chick..."	Director
2017	Pharmaceutical Abstractions	Director
2016	Berlin 1990	Director
2016	BAMPFA 2016	Director
2016	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	Starting to Go Bad	Director
2009	I Open the Window	Director
2009	I Put Out My Hands	Director
2009	13 track 13 #3	Director
2009	5 track 5 xfer	Director
2008	Horizontal Boundaries	Director
2008	Ambassador Teardown	Director
2008	Pittsburgh Piano	Director
2002	The Decay of Fiction	Director
1998	Squirtgun / Step Print	Director
1998	Coreopsis	Director
1996	Trouble in the Image	Director
1989	Water and Power	Director, Producer
1979	Two Sweeps	Director
1978	Sleeping Dogs (Never Lie)	Director
1978	Foregrounds	Director
1978	Let's Make a Sandwich	Director
1976	Sidewinder's Delta	Director
1975	The Big Con	Writer
1974	Saugus Series	Director
1973	Down Wind	Director
1972	The Last of the Persimmons	Director
1972	Easyout	Director
1971	Runs Good	Director
1969	Screen	Director
1968	Coming Down	Director
1968	Sears Sox	Director
1967	7362	Director
1964	Bump City	Director
1963	By the Sea	Director

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