Where the Chocolate Mountains (2015)

A tour de force of digital art Where the Chocolate Mountains 2015 55 min is a major new opus from Pat ONeill one of the alltime guiding lights of the Los Angeles avantgarde whose pioneering use of the optical printer marked a creative breakthrough in composite imagemaking in cinema Continuing in the vein of his renowned 35mm epics Water and Power 1989 Trouble in the Image 1996 and Decay of Fiction 2002 the founding CalArts faculty member combines haunting cinematography of the Chocolate Mountains along the border between California and Arizonalong used as a bombing range by the militarywith footage shot in LA Mexico and Prague intimate selfportraits and recurring graphic motifs to create irrepressible stunningly detailed streams of multilayered sight and sound