Abbott Meader

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Directing

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Male

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Abbott Meader

Biography

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 f...

Production

1981

Deep Trout

as Director

1981

Deep Trout

as Cinematography

1981

Deep Trout

as Sound Recordist

2000

Trout Fly Deep Trout Too

as Cinematography

1985

1985

Prologue to Echo Me

as Cinematography

1964

The Elms

as Director

1965

1972

Racetrack

as Director

1965

Criss Cross

as Director

1968

Shiva Ree

as Director

1969

Destroying Angel

as Director

1972

Nogarok

as Director

1972

Catwalk

as Director

1967

Wilderness

as Director

1963

1973

Lovetape Film

as Director

1974

Isolation

as Director

1977

In the Mountains

as Director

1968

Gallery

as Director

1969

Moments Ago

as Director

1977

West By North

as Director

1978

Wind in the Web

as Director

1979

American Odyssey

as Director

1979

1981

Winter Li

as Director

1982

Spem in Alium

as Director

1984

Winter Fence

as Director

1964

An Interior

as Director

1966

Vigil

as Director

1966

Departure

as Director

1963

Bone

as Director

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