Oral Histories
Interview of Pat O'Neill
Experimental filmmaker. California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) founding faculty member and associate dean.
- Series:
- Interviews not in a series, part two
- Topic:
- Film and Television
- Biographical Note:
- Experimental filmmaker. California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) founding faculty member and associate dean.
- Interviewee:
- O'Neill, Pat
- Persons Present:
- O'Neill and Collings.
- Place Conducted:
- O'Neill's home in Pasadena, California.
- Supporting Documents:
- Records relating to the interview are located in the office of the UCLA Library's Center for Oral History Research.
- Interviewer Background and Preparation:
- The interview was conducted by Jane Collings, Series Coordinator and Principal Editor, UCLA Center for Oral History Research; B.A., communications, Antioch College; M.A., communications, University of Iowa; Ph.D., critical studies, UCLA.Collings prepared for the interview by viewing O'Neill's films, video work andpaintings and reviewing material on the history and criticism of the avant-gardefilm movement in the United States.
- Processing of Interview:
- Patrick Keilty, editorial assistant, compiled the table of contents. Collingsassembled the interview history and supplied the spellings of proper nouns and thecomplete names entered in brackets in the text. O' Neill did not review thetranscript and consequently some proper names remain unverified.
- Length:
- 8 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Copyright:
- Interviewee Retained Copyright