{"597205":{"#nid":"597205","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Andy Ditlzer (curator, Film Love) and Gregory Zinman (LMC) teamed up to interview reclusive psychedelic filmmaker Ben Van Meter for the October issue of The Brooklyn Rail.","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBen Van Meter (b. 1941) began making films and light shows in the mid-1960s in San Francisco and soon became a leading figure in Bay Area underground filmmaking. His films, especially S. F. Trips Festival\u0026ndash;An Opening (1966) and the epic Acid Mantra (1968), are compelling attempts to visually and sonically inscribe psychedelia as experience and philosophy in the medium of film. Van Meter\u0026rsquo;s films were unavailable for many years, but their ongoing restoration by the Academy Film Archive and their inclusion in the de Young Museum\u0026rsquo;s 2017 exhibition, The Summer of Love Experience: Art, Fashion, and Rock \u0026amp; Roll, has gained them a new audience. This interview with Ben Van Meter was conducted in January 2017 by Andy Ditzler and Gregory Zinman, with email follow-ups and has been edited for length.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/brooklynrail.org\/2017\/10\/film\/BEN-VAN-METER-with-Andy-Ditzier-Gregory-Zinman\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/brooklynrail.org\/2017\/10\/film\/BEN-VAN-METER-with-Andy-Ditzier-Gregory-Zinman\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Ben Van Meter (b. 1941) began making films and light shows in the mid-1960s in San Francisco and soon became a leading figure in Bay Area underground filmmaking."}],"uid":"34552","created_gmt":"2017-10-11 15:14:25","changed_gmt":"2017-10-11 15:14:25","author":"sdykes3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-10-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-10-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"597203":{"id":"597203","type":"image","title":"Ben Van Meter","body":null,"created":"1507734790","gmt_created":"2017-10-11 15:13:10","changed":"1507734790","gmt_changed":"2017-10-11 15:13:10","alt":"","file":{"fid":"227619","name":"Screen Shot 2017-10-11 at 11.12.07 AM.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Screen%20Shot%202017-10-11%20at%2011.12.07%20AM.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Screen%20Shot%202017-10-11%20at%2011.12.07%20AM.png","mime":"image\/png","size":440047,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Screen%20Shot%202017-10-11%20at%2011.12.07%20AM.png?itok=dd4KUdRZ"}}},"media_ids":["597203"],"groups":[{"id":"275211","name":"Digital Media Program of the School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["gzinman3@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}