Abbott Meader

Abbott Meader

Abbott Meader is an American painter, filmmaker and retired Professor of art. Born In the Brooklyn area of New York City, his roots and many generations of ancestors are to be found in the northern, rural state of Maine, where he and his wife Nancy have lived since the 1960s. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Dartmouth College, and while in graduate school at the University of Colorado he became a friend of noted filmmaker Stan Brakhage, who encouraged him to explore film as well as painting and drawing. Meader’s early films reveal the influence of Brakhage, while clearly moving toward a distinctive personal vision. His work has been shown frequently in film festivals – in Brussels, Rome, Rapallo, Ann Arbor, Chicago, Boston, and at many schools and colleges over the years. From the early 1960s into the 1990s he produced a large body of personal film work while continuing to paint, teach, and help raise a family along with his wife Nancy, who had become a noted potter. Around the year 2000 it seemed to him that 16 mm was being essentially eliminated as he saw film stocks and labs disappear and costs go up substantially, and he reached an impasse. Always active as a painter as well as a filmmaker, the tangible “thingness” of film, with its individual frame as an actual surface to work on by hand, to be carefully picked up and held to the light, then physically cut and spliced — these physical characteristics had been essential. He therefore reluctantly decided to leave the world of personal film making and return primarily to painting. He nevertheless continued to collaborate with other filmmakers on a variety of projects as he had done over many years. His existing body of 16mm film work numbers well over fifty titles, and now, with the help of Bruce Williams, his friend and fellow filmmaker, Meader’s films are getting new life in a pristine digital form that makes them accessible to an expanded audience.

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  • 2000
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    Trout Fly Deep Trout Too

    Trout Fly Deep Trout Too

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  • 1981
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    Deep Trout

    Deep Trout

    1 1981 HD

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  • 1981
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    Deep Trout

    Deep Trout

    1 1981 HD

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  • 1981
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    Deep Trout

    Deep Trout

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    Trout Fly Deep Trout Too

    Trout Fly Deep Trout Too

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  • 1985
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    Prologue to Echo Me

    Prologue to Echo Me

    1 1985 HD

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  • 1985
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    Prologue to Echo Me

    Prologue to Echo Me

    1 1985 HD

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  • 1969
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    Tutto, tutto nello stesso istante

    Tutto, tutto nello stesso istante

    1 1969 HD

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  • 1964
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    The Elms

    The Elms

    1 1964 HD

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  • 1965
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    Summer Storm Passage

    Summer Storm Passage

    1 1965 HD

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  • 1972
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    Racetrack

    Racetrack

    1 1972 HD

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  • 1965
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    Criss Cross

    Criss Cross

    1 1965 HD

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  • 1968
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    Shiva Ree

    Shiva Ree

    9 1968 HD

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  • 1969
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    Destroying Angel

    Destroying Angel

    1 1969 HD

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  • 1972
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    Nogarok

    Nogarok

    1 1972 HD

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  • 1972
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    Catwalk

    Catwalk

    1 1972 HD

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  • 1967
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    Wilderness

    Wilderness

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  • 1963
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    A Looking for Summer

    A Looking for Summer

    1 1963 HD

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  • 1980
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    South Slope: What Love Tells Me

    South Slope: What Love Tells Me

    1 1980 HD

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  • 1973
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    Lovetape Film

    Lovetape Film

    1 1973 HD

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  • 1974
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    Isolation

    Isolation

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  • 1974
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    Shadows from the Western Wall

    Shadows from the Western Wall

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  • 1967
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    For Life, Against the War

    For Life, Against the War

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  • 1977
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    In the Mountains

    In the Mountains

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  • 1968
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    Gallery

    Gallery

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  • 1969
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    Moments Ago

    Moments Ago

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  • 1977
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    West By North

    West By North

    1 1977 HD

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  • 1978
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    Snake Dance Teacher Dance

    Snake Dance Teacher Dance

    1 1978 HD

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  • 1978
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    Wind in the Web

    Wind in the Web

    1 1978 HD

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  • 1979
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    American Odyssey

    American Odyssey

    1 1979 HD

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  • 1979
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    American Odyssey

    American Odyssey

    1 1979 HD

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  • 1981
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    Winter Li

    Winter Li

    6 1981 HD

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  • 1982
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    Spem in Alium

    Spem in Alium

    1 1982 HD

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  • 1982
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    Summerfall Black Berries

    Summerfall Black Berries

    1 1982 HD

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  • 1984
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    Winter Fence

    Winter Fence

    1 1984 HD

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  • 1964
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    An Interior

    An Interior

    1 1964 HD

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  • 1966
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    Vigil

    Vigil

    1 1966 HD

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  • 1966
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    Departure

    Departure

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  • 1963
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    Bone

    Bone

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