Preen Scene (2024)
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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.
Short film portrait using narration and artworks by Pat O'Neill and edited by Martha Colburn. ...
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Short film portrait using narration and artworks by Pat O'Neill and edited by Martha Colburn. ...
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Short film portrait using narration and artworks by Pat O'Neill and edited by Martha Colburn. ...
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A tour de force of digital art, Where the Chocolate Mountains (2015, 55 min.) is a major new opus from Pat O'Neill, one of the all-time guiding lights of the Los Angeles avant-garde, whose pioneering use of the optical printer marked a creative breakthroug ...
Watch NowOjo Caliente (hot eye) depicts a site in a reddish sandstone desert; the remains of a settlement apparently dedicated to the manufacture of solid objects. Cones of various sizes and shades are scattered about the entrance of a shallow cave. Whoever ma ...
Watch NowPainter and Ball 4-14 is a composite of several simultaneous intentions. The first is a record of the passage of days and seasons: the second is a similar recording made by another artist some thirty years previously: the third, an animation of a headless ...
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2009 --- Digital Video --- 30 minutes --- Color --- Sound Sound Mix: George Lockwood ...
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2009 --- Digital Video --- 19 minutes --- Color --- Sound Sound Mix: George Lockwood ...
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2009 --- Digital Video --- 10 minutes --- Color --- Sound Sound Mix: George Lockwood ...
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The title Horizontal Boundaries refers to frame lines- the boundaries between one image and the next on a roll of motion picture film. These lines, usually hidden by the projector gate, are revealed as subject matter and as a means of dividing the screen i ...
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The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles serves as the backdrop of Pat O'Neill's artfully-crafted film. Shot in the classic Hollywood style, the movie follows various mysterious characters as they move through the haunted halls of the hotel, exploring along the ...
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"O'Neill found an envelope labeled 'Helen's Coreopsis' with seeds from a 1935 visit his mother had made to her sister in Nebraska. His film COREOPSIS was made by scratching into developed and discarded pieces of film stock revealing pink, yellow and clear ...
Watch NowO'Neill applied film developer to film stock using a squirt gun, then rearranged the results into rhythmic repetitions. ...
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Optical printing pioneer Pat O'Neill uses "his skills in special effects production to extrapolate metaphysical meaning from the ordinariness of industrialized culture" (Scott Stark). In O'Neill's playful film, "trouble in the image" may take the form of a ...
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A reflection between nature and man in Los Angeles about the city's surroundings' desertification due to enormous water consumption. ...
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The day they filled all that gravel in front of Jack and Jerry's old studio on Venice Blvd. A yellow bird fascinated by reflection. Several views from the San Francisco Marine Museum on a gray day in December. Three views of Mercer Street, New York afte ...
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In this meditative film the everyday lives of poor Ethiopian peasants are shown using documentary as well as storytelling techniques, with its drama arising out of the timeless yet persistent issues of their lives. ...
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Television programming takes it on the chin in this ribald spoof of the networks. ...
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Short film of 7 sections with each one using a different experimental film technique. ...
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A thoughtful treatment of some of the problems we (mankind) have been having in dealing with our fellow species, animal and vegetable. Actually an undercover "structural" film, this one seems at first to be some sort of berserk travelogue. I spent years go ...
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LAST OF THE PERSIMMONS opens with a black-and-white image of a main inflating helium balloons in the shape of rabbits. Onto this image Mr. O'Neill places two mirror images an old Fleischer-style cartoon elephant comically licking its mouth as if in anticip ...
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Has to do with a consideration of one possible conceptual model for human existence: that of a primitive form of yardchair, upon which sits The Creator, impassively observing the inexorable flow of His mountains. ...
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A darkish journey down memory lane, to visit some news events, folkways and thought patterns associated with the late forties and early fifties. The film is also concerned with such perceptual phenomena as color-space, "false tones" caused by varying black ...
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16mm color short from Pat O'Neill, music video for The United States of America ...
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A short piece of commercial work done by three legendary L.A. artists. This piece was shown on loop projectors in Sears stores to promote an exciting and new young ladies' clothing line. 16mm print preserved by the Academy Film Archive. ...
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7362 is concerned with dividing and joining together. It begins with two black circles against a white background, knocking together and gradually moving further apart. The circles fade out, and return as white circles against black inside a square. Images ...
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Les Blank's first documentary cinematography job shooting Drag Racers in Long Beach, CA, driving everything from hopped up "Mercs" to Supercharged "Rail Dragsters". These cars could accelerate to over 220 miles/hour in a mile. The film follows the life of ...
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"Bump City is a colour film about the symbolic destruction of Los Angeles. It was never a very finished film, but it was about signs and advertising, redundant communications and manufacturing, waste and monotony." —Pat O'Neill. Preserved by the Academy ...
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"Muscle Beach is a fascinating location for people-watching in the L.A. area, and in 1963, the strangeness of its sights was much more pronounced than today. Pat O'Neill's first film (made with Robert Abel) progresses from humorous, curious observation to ...
Watch NowShort film portrait using narration and artworks by Pat O'Neill and edited by Martha Colburn. ...
Watch NowShort film portrait using narration and artworks by Pat O'Neill and edited by Martha Colburn. ...
Watch NowShort film portrait using narration and artworks by Pat O'Neill and edited by Martha Colburn. ...
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During the winter of 1975 in Hawaii, surfing was shaken to its core. A group of young surfers from Australia and South Africa sacrificed everything and put it all on the line to create a sport, a culture, and an industry that is today worth billions of dol ...
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Several well-known and pioneering abstract filmmakers discuss the history of non-objective cinema, the works of those that came before them and their own experiments in the field of visionary filmmaking. ...
Watch NowThe day they filled all that gravel in front of Jack and Jerry's old studio on Venice Blvd. A yellow bird fascinated by reflection. Several views from the San Francisco Marine Museum on a gray day in December. Three views of Mercer Street, New York afte ...
Watch NowAn exercise in special effects, using conventional travelling matte techniques on a contact printer. A small box (whose classic dimensions animators using an Oxberry field guide will recognize) moves across the screen revealing certain objets d'interest, h ...
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Documents the life and works of filmmaker Pat O'Neill, showing the making of a select group of films and discussion of these films by O'Neill. ...
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