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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1941-02-09 (84 years old)

Place of Birth

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA

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

Acting

1968

1967

Me & Bruce & Art as Himself (voice)

Crew

Directing

1971

Homegrown as Director

1970

Interrogation as Director
Boc Ging as Director

1969

Naked Zodiac as Director

1968

Acid Mantra as Director

1967

Make Love Not War as Director
Me & Bruce & Art as Director
BE as Director

1966

Acid Camp as Director

1965

Colorfilm as Director
Bolex Peyote Bardo as Director
Some Don't as Director

1964

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Nico as Director

Camera

2019

Magick Lantern Cycle as Camera Operator

1969