Ben Van Meter

Directing Feb 9, 1941 Aug 8, 2019 (aged 78) Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA

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.

3 Acting Credits

26 Crew Credits

Ben Van Meter

Acting

Apropos of San Francisco

He's Here Now

Me & Bruce & Art

Crew

Invocation of My Demon Brother

Magick Lantern Cycle

Army of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts

Naked Zodiac

For Life, Against the War

Set Your Chickens Free!

Vivid Color 3D Nude Models

Interrogation

Krishna's March to the Sea

Homegrown

Colorfilm

Make Love Not War