Ben Van Meter Movies

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

A color sound meditation on the erstwhile Warhol superstar.

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

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...

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...

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

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

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,"...

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.

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...

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

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

Experimental documentary about the San Francisco scene.

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...

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

Filmed and sound recorded at the Human Be-In during the summer of love, 1967.

Rathyahatra Festival San Francisco 1970.

This film follows a young man's adventures from his arrival in the big city, till he passes out in an apartment having been kidnapped and abandoned...