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.

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

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

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...

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

A color sound meditation on the erstwhile Warhol superstar.

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

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...

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

The astrological signs of 12 young women.

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.

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...

A chicken farmer takes LSD.

Experimental documentary about the San Francisco scene.

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

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

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

Rathyahatra Festival San Francisco 1970.