Pat O'Neill

Pat O'Neill was born in Los Angeles in 1939. He produced his first short film in 1963 in collaboration with computer graphics pioneer Robert Able. Since then he has completed 14 avant-garde films that are in many major film collections. From 1970 to 1975, he was in charge of the film and video department at the Californian "Institute of the Arts". Pat O'Neill runs a company for special effects and optical copying processes in Los Angeles - "Lookout Mountain Films".

"Based on the works of Len Lye or Hy Hirsh, Pat O'Neill creates his films in which the manipulation of the image is taken to the edge of the technically feasible. His visual vocabulary - interweaving countless image planes by means of masking techniques and superimpositions, combining geometric patterns that hover over real background scenes and the like - everything that O'Neill had to painstakingly work out in hundreds of hours of optical processing of the film material was simplified and cheapened by the digital effects of the MTV era. But O'Neill had already refined his aesthetic to such an extent that - as with the found-footage films of Bruce Conner - it is impossible not to imitate him, but very difficult to do the same." (William Moritz)

Program
7362 (USA 1967, 16mm, 10 Min.)
Runs Good (USA 1970, 16mm, 15 Miin.)
Last of the Persimmons (USA 1972, 16mm, 6 Min.)
Down Wind (USA 1973, 16mm, 15 Min.)
Saugus Series (USA 1974, 16mm, 18 Min.)
Sidewinder's Delta (USA 1976, 16mm, 20 Min.)
Easy Out (USA 1971, 16mm, 9 Min.)
Foregrounds (USA 1978, 16mm, 13 Min.)
Trouble in the Image (USA 1996, 35mm, 38 Min.)
Horizontal Boundaries (USA 1997, 35mm, 23 Min.) 

for more information see downloads