Ben Van Meter
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- February 9, 1941
- Died
- August 8, 2019 (aged 78)
- Birthplace
- Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Go Where the Kids Go
Movie · Director
Set Your Chickens Free!
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The Saga of Macrame Park
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Homegrown
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Krishna's March to the Sea
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Interrogation
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Boc Ging
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Naked Zodiac
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Vivid Color 3D Nude Models
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Acid Mantra or Rebirth of a Nation
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Garden of Proserpine
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Steve Miller Blues Band
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For Life, Against the War
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Make Love Not War
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Nico
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Me & Bruce & Art
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BE
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S.F. Trips Festival: An Opening
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Acid Camp
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Colorfilm
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Bolex Peyote Bardo
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Up Tight, L.A. Is Burning... Shit!
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Some Don't
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The Poon-Tang Trilogy
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