The Decay of Fiction
- Wed, Jun 17
Director: Pat O'Neill Run Time: 74 min. Format: 35mm Release Year: 2002
Starring: Amber Lopez, Damon Colazzo, Dan Bell, Jack Conley, Jacqueline Humbert, John Rawling, Judy Lieff., Julio Leopold, Kane Crawford, Patricia Thielemann, Wendi Winburn, William Lewis
A treasure chest of narrative fragments, The Decay of Fiction lacks the itinerary and “instructions for use” that automatically comes with a linear story. The shards of its many implied plotlines are the fruit of O’Neill’s all-encompassing sense of form, which for better or worse is conceptual rather than technical or material. – Jonathan Rosenbaum, The Chicago Reader, May 30, 2003,
https://jonathanrosenbaum.net/2023/03/ghosts-of-hollywood/
Skies | 9 min | 35mm transferred to digital |World Premiere
A new film by Pat O’Neill, Skies, composed of excerpts from his 35mm film timelapse documentation of the skies above the western United States landscape in the early 70s. Soundtrack by Thollem McDonas from his album The Light Is Real (Voices) with Terry Riley.
“I am interested in exploring the boundaries of believability. The narrative tradition insists that, no matter how fantastic the story, its surface must be seamless. By contrast, I call attention to the artifice, all the staged aspects, and allow the well-worn stories to slip over and through one another. The film’s intention could be described as wanting to take stories off the screen and into the imagination. I like to work within the gaps between reality and story, to look at what is going on around the story, its context, and to make that a part of my conversation with the audience.” – Pat O’Neill
Tickets: $15 general, $10 students/seniors (purchased at door), free for Filmforum members.