Pat O'Neill (filmmaker)
Patrick O'Neill (born June 28th, 1939 in
Career
His early 16mm films include Runs Good (1971), Easyout (1971), and Down Wind (1973). His later 35mm films include Water and Power (1989), Trouble in the Image (1996), and The Decay of Fiction (2002). On December 30, 2008, Water and Power was added to the National Film Registry.[1] Prints of O'Neill's films are held in numerous archives and museums around the world; his complete collection resides at the Academy Film Archive, where several of his short works—including By the Sea, Bump City, and 7362—have been preserved.[2] Two of O'Neill's longer films have also been preserved by the Academy in collaboration with O'Neill: Water and Power, in 2009, and Trouble in the Image, in 2016.[3]
He has also taught at the California Institute of the Arts. He influenced a generation of CalArts students, who include Adam Beckett, Robert Blalack, Chris Casady, and Larry Cuba, who all later went on to work on the special effects of the original Star Wars.
Filmography
- By the Sea (with Robert Abel) (1963)
- Bump City (1964)
- 7362 (1965–67)
- Coming Down (aka Heresy) (1968) (promo film for The United States of America)
- Screen (1969)
- Runs Good (1971)[4]
- Easyout (1972)
- The Last of the Persimmons (1972)
- Down Wind (1973)
- Saugus Series (1974)
- Sidewinder's Delta (1976)[5]
- Two Sweeps (1977)[6]
- Foregrounds (1978)
- Sleeping Dogs (Never Lie) (1978)
- Let's Make a Sandwich (1982)[6]
- Water and Power (1989)
- Trouble in the Image (1996)[6]
- Coreopsis (1998)
- Squirtgun Step Print (1998)
- The Decay of Fiction (2002)
- Horizontal Boundaries (2008)
- I Put Out my Hands (2009)
- I Open the Window (2009)
- Starting to go Bad (2009)
- Painter & Ball 4-14 (2010)
- Ojo Caliente (2012)
- Where the Chocolate Mountains (2015)[7]
Notes
- ^ "New titles in U.S. National Film Registry". The Globe and Mail. Associated Press. December 30, 2008. Retrieved 2008-12-30.
- ^ "Pat O'Neill Collection". Academy Film Archive.
- ^ "Preserved Projects". Academy Film Archive.
- ^ Runs Good (1971)|MUBI
- ^ Water and Power|BAMPFA
- ^ a b c Trouble in the Image|BAMPFA
- ^ REDCAT
References
- Pat O'Neill: Views From Lookout Mountain by Paul Arthur, Howard Singerman, Erika Suderburg, and Julie Lazar ed.Steidl/Santa Monica Museum of Art, 2004
- Pat O'Neill: Another Kind of Record. Los Angeles: The Ice Plant, 2008
- "An Interview with Pat O'Neill" David James. 'Millennium Film Journal No 30/31 Fall 1997.
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