About
Mark O'Connell, a musician and digital media artist, creates short films whose fluid collages of imagery and sound draw on movies, memory, chance and sensuality. His work abandons traditional narrative in order to explore the possibilities that arise from the juxtaposition, as well as the rhythms and textures, of images and sound.
O'Connell lives in Seattle, where his work has been sponsored by Washington's Artist’s Trust organization, the Seattle Arts Commission, the King County Arts Commission and 4 Culture. Abroad, his work has earned showings at the European Media Arts Festival, in Osnabrueck; Videoex,in Zurich; the Melbourne Underground Film Festival; the Impakt Festival, in Amsterdam; Netslag, in Stockholm; Enter Multimediale, in Prague; and Dublin's Darklight Digital Film Festival. It has also been presented at screenings in Japan, Thailand and China.
O'Connell has been profiled in Wired, The Independent, The Seattle Times, and numerous other print and online publications. His work is featured by software house Adobe in their Web gallery.
Four compilations of his works are offered for sale: "Dipstick" (1999 --VHS only), and the DVD collections "Just Kill Me", "No Commercial Value", and "This is Not a Movie".
If you would like to see his commercial work please visit O'Connell's business site.