Pat O'Neill

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.

Directed

1. Water and Power (1989) — Director
2. Easyout (1972) — Director
3. Saugus Series (1974) — Director
4. Runs Good (1971) — Director
5. 7362 (1967) — Director
6. Horizontal Boundaries (2008) — Director
7. Foregrounds (1978) — Director
8. Sidewinder's Delta (1976) — Director
9. Down Wind (1973) — Director
10. The Decay of Fiction (2002) — Director
11. Trouble in the Image (1996) — Director
12. "An Extra Wander: For Chick..." (2019) — Director
13. Screen (1969) — Director
14. Coreopsis (1998) — Director
15. The Last of the Persimmons (1972) — Director
16. Bump City (1964) — Director
17. By the Sea (1963) — Director
18. Painter and Ball 4-14 (2011) — Director
19. Messages (2020) — Director
20. Messages 2 (2021) — Director
21. Messages 3 (2021) — Director
22. Messages 4 (2021) — Director
23. Coming Down (1968) — Director
24. Let's Make a Sandwich (1978) — Director
25. Squirtgun / Step Print (1998) — Director
26. Two Sweeps (1979) — Director
27. Messages 5 (2021) — Director
28. Sleeping Dogs (Never Lie) (1978) — Director
29. Sears Sox (1968) — Director
30. Where the Chocolate Mountains (2015) — Director
31. Starting to Go Bad (2009) — Director
32. I Open the Window (2009) — Director
33. I Put Out My Hands (2009) — Director
34. Preen Scene (2024) — Director
35. Ojo Caliente (2012) — Director
36. Ambassador Teardown (2008) — Director
37. No Wonder / Two Skins (2013) — Director
38. Pittsburgh Piano (2008) — Director
39. 13 track 13 #3 (2009) — Director
40. 5 track 5 xfer (2009) — Director

Also appeared in

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