Ben Van Meter Filmes

A color sound meditation on the erstwhile Warhol superstar.

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...

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...

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...

First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in...

Personal diary-style documentary of German Gay rights activist Von Praunheim's sojourn in the US.

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,"...

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

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

Steve Miller Blues Band sequence by prominent San Francisco filmmaker Ben Van Meter.

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

Colored lights and lovely ladies. Snatches of kinetic beauty.

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...

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

Experimental documentary about the San Francisco scene.

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

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

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...

The astrological signs of 12 young women.

Nymphs in the woods... exotic... sensual. Featuring two lovely pregnant young ladies doing centuries old dances in green woods with see through veils.