Pat O'Neill

Director, Editor, Producer

January 1, 1939 (87 years)
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.

Known For

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  • Saugus Series
    Saugus Series1974
  • Horizontal Boundaries
    Horizontal Boundaries2008
  • Trouble in the Image
    Trouble in the Image1996
  • Foregrounds
    Foregrounds1978
  • Sidewinder's Delta
    Sidewinder's Delta1976
  • Screen
    Screen1969
  • Let's Make a Sandwich
    Let's Make a Sandwich1978
  • Coreopsis
    Coreopsis1998

Filmography

2008
1993
Abstract Cinema · as Himself

1998
Squirtgun Stepprint · as Cinematographer
1989
Water and Power · as Cinematographer
1975
Harvest: 3,000 Years · as Visual Effects
1974
The Groove Tube · as Animation