From: zeno (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Oct 17 2005 - 00:38:37 PDT
As odd as it might seem, Ben's homepage is www.aliengold.com
Zeno
>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:
>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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