Ben Van Meter
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.
Army of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts
(Cinematography)
Naked Zodiac
(Director)
Set Your Chickens Free!
(Director)
Vivid Color 3D Nude Models
(Director)
Interrogation
(Director)
Krishna's March to the Sea
(Director)
Homegrown
(Director)
Colorfilm
(Director)
Make Love Not War
(Director)
Acid Mantra
(Director)
For Life, Against the War
(Director)
Bolex Peyote Bardo
(Director)
BE
(Director)
Up Tight, L.A. Is Burning... Shit!
(Director)
The Poon-Tang Trilogy
(Director)
S.F. Trips Festival: An Opening
(Director)
Me & Bruce & Art
(Director)
Nico
(Director)
Some Don't
(Director)
Boc Ging
(Director)
Garden of Proserpine
(Director)
Steve Miller Blues Band
(Director)
Invocation of My Demon Brother
(Camera Operator)
The Saga of Macrame Park
(Director)
Acid Camp
(Director)
Magick Lantern Cycle
(Camera Operator)