Ben Van Meter Movies

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...

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

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...

A color sound meditation on the erstwhile Warhol superstar.

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.

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

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

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

Nymphs in the woods... exotic... sensual. Featuring two lovely pregnant young ladies doing centuries old dances in green woods with see through veils.

Rathyahatra Festival San Francisco 1970.

A chicken farmer takes LSD.

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

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

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

One of the most powerful, thought-provoking collage films produced during the New American Cinema Movement. Almost schizophrenic in its kaleidoscopic...

Colored lights and lovely ladies. Snatches of kinetic beauty.

A film exposing the staged commodification and banality of the American "beauty contest" with color overlays of fireworks in reverse-motion. ...

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