From: owen (email suppressed)
Date: Sun Oct 16 2005 - 11:32:47 PDT
Hi,
I really like Ben Van Meter's work. Great intuitive in camera
superimposed, multi layered 3 4 5 6 7 8 even 9 layers deep.
Hard to see now that he's pulled all prints from circulation. Last I
checked with him, he insisted on traveling with his prints.
"Colorfilm" is a triple exposed feast of color and a nature romp,
very poetic, I think, and unpretentious. Coop had a beautiful
Kodachrome print.
Pow! They also had "Olds-mobile", soon after I screened that all his
work was been pulled from Filmmakers Co-op and Canyon.
I screened a 16 mm print of "Colorfilm" at the eletrical
retrospectacle:
the electrical retrospectacle #2 August 5th 1998
loud visual noises-stan brakhage(1982)
time of the locust-peter gessner(1966)
film study-hans richter(1926)
drips in strips-marie menken(1961)
thanatopsis-ed emshwiller(1962)
intermission
metanomen-scott bartlett(1966)
poem field #7-stan vanderbeek(1967-71?)
colorfilm-ben van meter(1964-65)
non catholicam-will hindle(1958-63)
I'll bet Dominic could add some color to the Ben Van Meter legend.
Owen
On Oct 16, 2005, at 12:38 PM, zeno wrote:
> FIY, the "hippie" filmmaker Ben Van Meter has recently written a
> novel which has quite a few references to San Francisco in the 60s
> among other things in its various story lines. It is called "Alien
> Gold, Book I, The God's Truth". I found it rather entertaining.
>
> Zeno
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