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...

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

A color sound meditation on the erstwhile Warhol superstar.

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

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...

Experimental documentary about the San Francisco scene.

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...

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,"...

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

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

The astrological signs of 12 young women.

Colored lights and lovely ladies. Snatches of kinetic beauty.

A chicken farmer takes LSD.

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.

Through the veils of multiple exposure at an "Acid Test" party in San Francisco (toward the end of "He's Here Now" ) one might catch a brief glimpse...

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

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