Pat O'Neill (filmmaker)
Patrick O'Neill (born June 28th, 1939 in Los Angeles, California) 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.
Career
[edit]His early
He has also taught at the California Institute of the Arts. He influenced a generation of CalArts students, who include Adam Beckett, Robert Blalack, Chris Casady, and Larry Cuba, who all later went on to work on the special effects of the original Star Wars.
Filmography
[edit]- By the Sea (with Robert Abel) (1963)
- Bump City (1964)
- 7362 (1965–67)
- Coming Down (aka Heresy) (1968) (promo film for The United States of America)
- Screen (1969)
- Runs Good (1971)[4]
- Easyout (1972)
- The Last of the Persimmons (1972)
- Down Wind (1973)
- Saugus Series (1974)
- Sidewinder's Delta (1976)[5]
- Two Sweeps (1977)[6]
- Foregrounds (1978)
- Sleeping Dogs (Never Lie) (1978)
- Let's Make a Sandwich (1982)[6]
- Water and Power (1989)
- Trouble in the Image (1996)[6]
- Coreopsis (1998)
- Squirtgun Step Print (1998)
- The Decay of Fiction (2002)
- Horizontal Boundaries (2008)
- I Put Out my Hands (2009)
- I Open the Window (2009)
- Starting to go Bad (2009)
- Painter & Ball 4-14 (2010)
- Ojo Caliente (2012)
- Where the Chocolate Mountains (2015)[7]
Notes
[edit]- ^ "New titles in U.S. National Film Registry". The Globe and Mail. Associated Press. December 30, 2008. Retrieved 2008-12-30.
- ^ "Pat O'Neill Collection". Academy Film Archive.
- ^ "Preserved Projects". Academy Film Archive.
- ^ Runs Good (1971)|MUBI
- ^ Water and Power|BAMPFA
- ^ a b c Trouble in the Image|BAMPFA
- ^ REDCAT
References
[edit]- Pat O'Neill: Views From Lookout Mountain by Paul Arthur, Howard Singerman, Erika Suderburg, and Julie Lazar ed.Steidl/Santa Monica Museum of Art, 2004
- Pat O'Neill: Another Kind of Record. Los Angeles: The Ice Plant, 2008
- "An Interview with Pat O'Neill" David James. 'Millennium Film Journal No 30/31 Fall 1997.