Personal diary-style documentary of German Gay rights activist Von Praunheim's sojourn in the US.

The astrological signs of 12 young women.

A chicken farmer takes LSD.

Colored lights and lovely ladies. Snatches of kinetic beauty.

Hilariously terrifying satire of an interrogation session by the thought police.

Magic is alive and living in Bolinas. A folkfilm, a personal poem about my family and my town. Includes "Bear-Hunt," Bolinas 4th of July," "Rummage," "Oilspill," "Horseplay," "Lila's Birthday," and "Benjamin's Bath." Rated "G" by me. Suitable for home, church, school, and film society. A patriotic, devotional homemovie. Completed August 1971.

Rathyahatra Festival San Francisco 1970.

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 was three 100 ft. rolls of film that each had been triple exposed in-camera, each layer of exposure representing a day of the festival. Aside from just two or three necessary structural edits, Ben spliced the three rolls together essentially unedited. This was then set to a soundtrack that was achieved in roughly the same manner, via triple layering of sound he recorded throughout the festival; He calls the film “a documentary of the Trips Festival from the point of view of a goldfish in the punch bowl.”

Make Love, Not War, or Brown Rice, uses three projectors, and takes advantage of all the possibilities. Similar images with different superimpositions combined with single images or different images, images which appear simultaneously or recur at different times on alternate screens. The film mixes live location with studio shots, newsreel footage with set-up scenes, like one of a big boat which was built in the studio, filled with pretty girls and then floated on a lake in Golden Gate Park.

First experimentation with in-camera multiple exposure as a technique of self-expression.