Ben Van Meter Movies

Experimental documentary about the San Francisco scene.

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...

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

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...

Through the veils of multiple exposure at an "Acid Test" party in San Francisco (toward the end of "He's Here Now" ) one might catch a brief glimpse...

(After or for Jean Vigo). A study in visual rhythms and structure, using the same basic element repeated with variations.