
Pat O'Neill
Profile info
Known forDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1 January 1939 (87 years old)
Place of birthLos Angeles, California, USA
Known credits53
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…
Skies
2026 · Director

Preen Scene
2024 · Director

Messages 5
2021 · Himself (voice)

Messages 5
2021 · Director

Messages 4
2021 · Himself (voice)

Messages 4
2021 · Director

Messages 3
2021 · Narrator

Messages 3
2021 · Director

Messages 2
2021 · Narrator

Messages 2
2021 · Director

Messages
2020 · Narration

Messages
2020 · Director

"An Extra Wander: For Chick..."
2019 · Director

Pharmaceutical Abstractions
2017 · Director

Berlin 1990
2016 · Director

BAMPFA 2016
2016 · Director

Western Gray Squirrel
2016 · Director

Where the Chocolate Mountains
2015 · Director

No Wonder / Two Skins
2013 · Director
Ojo Caliente
2012 · Director
Painter and Ball 4-14
2011 · Director

Starting to Go Bad
2009 · Director

I Open the Window
2009 · Director

I Put Out My Hands
2009 · Director

13 track 13 #3
2009 · Director

5 track 5 xfer
2009 · Director

Bustin' Down the Door
2008 · Self

Horizontal Boundaries
2008 · Director

Ambassador Teardown
2008 · Director

Pittsburgh Piano
2008 · Director

The Decay of Fiction
2002 · Director
Squirtgun / Step Print
1998 · Director

Coreopsis
1998 · Director

Trouble in the Image
1996 · Director

Abstract Cinema
1993 · Himself

Water and Power
1989 · Director

Water and Power
1989 · Cinematography

Water and Power
1989 · Editor

Water and Power
1989 · Producer

Two Sweeps
1979 · Director

Sleeping Dogs (Never Lie)
1978

Sleeping Dogs (Never Lie)
1978 · Director

Foregrounds
1978 · Director

Let's Make a Sandwich
1978 · Director

Sidewinder's Delta
1976 · Director
Moving Targets
1976

Harvest: 3,000 Years
1975 · Visual Effects

The Big Con
1975 · Writer
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