Ben Van Meter

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1941-02-09

Deathday 2019-08-08 (78 years old)

Place of Birth Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA

Also Known As Humble Ben

Ben Van Meter

Biography

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.

Known For

Director

Nico

as Director

1974
1974
1971
Homegrown

as Director

1970
Interrogation

as Director

1970
Boc Ging

as Director

1969
Naked Zodiac

as Director

1968
Acid Mantra

as Director

1968
1968
1967
Make Love Not War

as Director

1967
BE

as Director

1967
Me & Bruce & Art

as Director

1966
Acid Camp

as Director

1965
Bolex Peyote Bardo

as Director

1965
Colorfilm

as Director

1965
Some Don't

as Director

1964

Actor

Camera

2019
Magick Lantern Cycle

as Camera Operator

1969