Rick Patton

Películas

Terminagolf (Happy Gilmore)
Sound Mixer
Happy Gilmore era un fanático jugador de hockey y ahora no tiene objetivos en su vida. Cuando su novia le abandona y a su madre la echan del piso en el que vive por no pagar el alquiler, decide dedicarse a jugar al golf en torneos profesionales con la esperanza de reunir el suficiente dinero para cambiar su situación. Resulta que Happy tiene un potentísimo swing que manda la pelota a 400 yardas de distancia. Además, debido a su alocado temperamento, comienza a causar furor entre los medios de comunicación por sus extravagantes payasadas en los campos de golf.
En el punto de mira
Sound Mixer
Secuela de "Stakeout" (Procedimiento ilegal), de nuevo Dreyfuss y Estévez son dos detectives de Seattle asignados, esta vez, a la vigilancia de un testigo que ha escapado. Su trabajo se complica cuando son ayudados por una torpe pero bienintencionada ayudante del fiscal -Rosie O'Donnell-.
Dos pájaros a tiro
Sound Designer
Un hombre que vive con una nueva identidad acogido al sistema de protección de testigos es descubierto por su ex-novia, justo en el mismo momento en el que un criminal que acaba de salir de la cárcel trata de vengarse de él...
Island Journal
Director
After the turbulent 60s Patton embraced the back-to-the-land movement. As presaged in his earlier film, Blue Mountain, he was drawn to a simpler rural life, close to nature. In 1969 he threw in with a group of people to form the Jones Farm on Quadra Island in British Columbia. He lived in a small cabin with no electricity or running water for 3 years. He supported himself as a welder and carpenter. These were good times. During this period basically gave up filmmaking, yet he still managed to shoot bits and pieces of the landscape and characters around him. This footage sat in a box for several years. He moved to Vancouver in 1974 to resume his filmmaking career, In 1976 he returned to Quadra Island with better gear and enough film stock to shoot additional footage. The result is a quirky personal journal in documentary form.
Night of Samhain
Director
Night of Samhain is a humorous look at Halloween, the holiday with no redeeming social value. A holiday that values outrageous behaviour. A holiday that has been a thorn in the side of organized religion for centuries and one that many wish would disappear.
Grain
Director
This is a film made without a camera. The images are painted directly onto 16mm clear leader. Patton was particularly interested in the organic shapes that resulted from mixing chemically dissimilar spray paints.
Blue Mountain
Director
Patton reflects on his inner city life in psychedelic San Francisco, contrasting that with his attraction to solitude and remote mountain landscapes. An underlying Buddhist perspective attempts to mediate these very different realities.
Time Portrait
Director
This is Rick Patton’s first film, made when he was a student at Antioch college. The stylistic premise was that the film would be a self-portrait, like a still photograph, that changed and grew through time. It is not a story, but it does revolve around a love affair gone wrong and a broken heart. Patton did not show this film for 40 years. He found it embarrassing. Now in his 60s, he is OK with it. All filmmakers have a first film.
At Mideke
Director
A montage from the films of Michael Mideke.