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.

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 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.

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

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...

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

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 color sound meditation on the erstwhile Warhol superstar.

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

The astrological signs of 12 young women.

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...

A chicken farmer takes LSD.

Colored lights and lovely ladies. Snatches of kinetic beauty.

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

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