Ben Van Meter
Directing
1941-02-09 · Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
Ben Van Meter began making films and light shows in the mid-1960s in San Francisco and soon became a leading figure in Bay Area-underground filmmaking. His films, especially S.F. Trips Festival, An Opening (1966) and the epic Acid Mantra or Rebirth of a Nation (1968), are compelling attempts to visually and sonically inscribe psychedelia, as experience and philosophy, in the medium of film. Van Meter’s films were unavailable for many years, but their ongoing restoration by the Academy Film Archive and their inclusion in the de Young Museum’s 2017 exhibition, The Summer of Love Experience: Art, Fashion, and Rock ‘n’ Roll, has gained them a new audience.
Filmography
Go Where the Kids Go
2008 · Movie
Army of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts
1979 · Movie
The Saga of Macrame Park
1974 · Movie
Magick Lantern Cycle
1974 · Movie
Set Your Chickens Free!
1974 · Movie
Homegrown
1971 · Movie
Krishna's March to the Sea
1971 · Movie
Interrogation
1970 · Movie
Boc Ging
1970 · Movie
Naked Zodiac
1969 · Movie
Invocation of My Demon Brother
1969 · Movie
Vivid Color 3D Nude Models
1969 · Movie
Steve Miller Blues Band
1968 · Movie
Garden of Proserpine
1968 · Movie
Acid Mantra or Rebirth of a Nation
1968 · Movie
Apropos of San Francisco
1968 · Movie
Make Love Not War
1967 · Movie
He's Here Now
1967 · Movie
For Life, Against the War
1967 · Movie
Me & Bruce & Art
1967 · Movie
Nico
1967 · Movie
BE
1967 · Movie
S.F. Trips Festival: An Opening
1966 · Movie
Acid Camp
1966 · Movie
Up Tight, L.A. Is Burning... Shit!
1965 · Movie
Some Don't
1965 · Movie
Bolex Peyote Bardo
1965 · Movie
Colorfilm
1965 · Movie
The Poon-Tang Trilogy
1964 · Movie