Ben Van Meter

Directing·Feb 9, 1941·Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA

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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.

Film	Credit
TThe Saga of Macrame Park1974 · Director	Director
SSet Your Chickens Free!1974 · Director	Director
HHomegrown1971 · Director	Director
KKrishna's March to the Sea1971 · Director	Director
IInterrogation1970 · Director	Director
BBoc Ging1970 · Director	Director
NNaked Zodiac1969 · Director	Director
VVivid Color 3D Nude Models1969 · Director	Director
SSteve Miller Blues Band1968 · Director	Director
GGarden of Proserpine1968 · Director	Director
Acid Mantra or Rebirth of a Nation1968 · Director	Director
Apropos of San Francisco1968 · Actor	Actor
MMake Love Not War1967 · Director	Director
He's Here Now1967 · Actor	Actor
For Life, Against the War1967 · Director	Director
MMe & Bruce & Art1967 · Himself (voice), Director	Himself (voice), Director
BBE1967 · Director	Director
Nico1967 · Director	Director
S.F. Trips Festival: An Opening1966 · Director	Director
AAcid Camp1966 · Director	Director
UUp Tight, L.A. Is Burning... Shit!1965 · Director	Director
SSome Don't1965 · Director	Director
BBolex Peyote Bardo1965 · Director	Director
Colorfilm1965 · Director	Director
The Poon-Tang Trilogy1964 · Director	Director