Ben Van Meter Movies

This film follows a young man's adventures from his arrival in the big city, till he passes out in an apartment having been kidnapped and abandoned...

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

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...

Rathyahatra Festival San Francisco 1970.

First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in...

Alexandra Jackonetti recounts the building of a children's playground of macrame in Bolinas, Calif., including her conception of the project and the...