Ben Van Meter Movies

A film exposing the staged commodification and banality of the American "beauty contest" with color overlays of fireworks in reverse-motion. ...

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

Rathyahatra Festival San Francisco 1970.

Steve Miller Blues Band sequence by prominent San Francisco filmmaker Ben Van Meter.

Nymphs in the woods... exotic... sensual. Featuring two lovely pregnant young ladies doing centuries old dances in green woods with see through veils.

Filmed and sound recorded at the Human Be-In during the summer of love, 1967.

One of the most powerful, thought-provoking collage films produced during the New American Cinema Movement. Almost schizophrenic in its kaleidoscopic...