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Ben Van Meter
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.…
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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.
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Movies and shows, newest first
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1979
Army of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts
Movie Cinematography
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1974
The Saga of Macrame Park
Movie Director
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1974
Magick Lantern Cycle
Movie Camera Operator
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1974
Set Your Chickens Free!
Movie Director
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1971
Homegrown
Movie Director
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1971
Krishna's March to the Sea
Movie Director
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1970
Interrogation
Movie Director
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1970
Boc Ging
Movie Director
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1969
Naked Zodiac
Movie Director
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1969
Invocation of My Demon Brother
Movie Camera Operator
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1969
Vivid Color 3D Nude Models
Movie Director
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1968
Steve Miller Blues Band
Movie Director
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1968
Garden of Proserpine
Movie Director
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1968
Acid Mantra or Rebirth of a Nation
Movie Director
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1968
Apropos of San Francisco
Movie
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1967
Make Love Not War
Movie Director
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1967
He's Here Now
Movie
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1967
For Life, Against the War
Movie Director
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1967
Nico
Movie Director
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1967
BE
Movie Director
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1967
Me & Bruce & Art
Movie Himself (voice)
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1966
S.F. Trips Festival: An Opening
Movie Director
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1966
Acid Camp
Movie Director
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1965
Up Tight, L.A. Is Burning... Shit!
Movie Director
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1965
Some Don't
Movie Director
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1965
Bolex Peyote Bardo
Movie Director
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1965
Colorfilm
Movie Director
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1964
The Poon-Tang Trilogy
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