Ben Van Meter Movies

Bay Area filmmakers and Canyon Cinema co-founders Ben Van Meter and Bruce Conner were invited to L.A. to talk about Underground Film on the Art...

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

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...