Ben Van Meter Movies

Personal diary-style documentary of German Gay rights activist Von Praunheim's sojourn in the US.

The shadowing forth of Our Lord Lucifer, as the Power of Darkness gather at a midnight mass. The dance of the Magus widdershins around the Swirling...

First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in...

Alexandra Jackonetti recounts the building of a children's playground of macrame in Bolinas, Calif., including her conception of the project and the...

Hilariously terrifying satire of an interrogation session by the thought police.

Make Love, Not War, or Brown Rice, uses three projectors, and takes advantage of all the possibilities. Similar images with different...

Colored lights and lovely ladies. Snatches of kinetic beauty.

Magic is alive and living in Bolinas. A folkfilm, a personal poem about my family and my town. Includes "Bear-Hunt," Bolinas 4th of July," "Rummage,"...

A chicken farmer takes LSD.

Van Meter had three camera rolls of 7242 Ektachrome EFB, which he fully ran through his camera each day of the 3-day Trips Festival. The end result...

First experimentation with in-camera multiple exposure as a technique of self-expression.

The Poon Tang Trilogy (1964, B/W, sound) is a brief film composed of three 3-minute segments: in the first tableau, footage of the Hindenburg...

A color sound meditation on the erstwhile Warhol superstar.

Created in 1968 by Robert Comings and Ben Van Meter in Bolinas, CA. Original sound & music performed on homemade acoustic instruments. Including a...

Through the veils of multiple exposure at an "Acid Test" party in San Francisco (toward the end of "He's Here Now" ) one might catch a brief glimpse...

Bay Area filmmakers and Canyon Cinema co-founders Ben Van Meter and Bruce Conner were invited to L.A. to talk about Underground Film on the Art...

Experimental documentary about the San Francisco scene.

A joyous, chaotic and colorful romp through nature; A psychedelic dance troupe rehearses in a studio.

The astrological signs of 12 young women.

(After or for Jean Vigo). A study in visual rhythms and structure, using the same basic element repeated with variations.