Ben Van Meter
Directing
Born 1941-02-09
Died 2019-08-08
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
28 credits
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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.
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Filmography
Directing
23 credits
Homegrown
Nico
Acid Camp
Me & Bruce & Art
BE
Make Love Not War
Boc Ging
The Poon-Tang Trilogy
Colorfilm
Interrogation
For Life, Against the War
The Saga of Macrame Park
Naked Zodiac
Set Your Chickens Free!
Vivid Color 3D Nude Models
Krishna's March to the Sea
Up Tight, L.A. Is Burning... Shit!
Steve Miller Blues Band
Some Don't
Garden of Proserpine
Bolex Peyote Bardo
S.F. Trips Festival: An Opening
Acid Mantra or Rebirth of a Nation
Acting
4 credits
Magick Lantern Cycle
Invocation of My Demon Brother
Me & Bruce & Art
Army of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts
Other credits
2 credits
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