Abbott Meader Trailers
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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.
Most Popular Abbott Meader Trailers
Total trailers found: 35
31 December 1981
A film by Abbott Meader and Walter Easton 16mm, 43:43 minutes, color, sound, 1981
01 January 1969
"Nancy and I were aware that our daughter Jennifer was getting ready to walk. She'd push her stroller around with great determination, and so I did some 'home movie' filming to document her efforts.
01 January 1973
"The film may suggest the fear of losing a loved one. Desire. Yearning. Anger. Doubt. A female nude. A reiterated breast.
01 January 1968
"No English language issues here. The title refers to Siva/Shiva – god of the dance – who dances the world into both destruction and rebirth, and Charivari, pronounced 'Shivaree', a rude serenade to mock wedding couples -i.
01 January 1980
South Slope: What Love Tells Me is a 16mm film made in 1978-1980 by the artist Abbott Meader. It is a dramatic portrait of a piece of land in Maine as seen through the seasons filmed over a period of two years.
01 January 1977
"The direction of Western Culture's advance has been WXN, and now no further planetary geography remains into which to penetrate.
01 January 1984
"A fence to contend with winter storms. Auld Lang Syne. Memories of green. 'Benigne fac, Domine, in bona voluntate'.
01 January 1972
"Glimpses into a day in the life of three children. The three are busy with their lives. We see them, but what are they thinking? My camera screws up, but the effect seems appropriate and so I use the footage anyway.
01 January 1974
"SHADOWS FROM THE WESTERN WALL involves footage from Rome, the Eternal City, and from the woodlands of rural Maine.
12 September 1972
"This dates from 1972 and 73. Frustration and anger in the nation and the world. Nothing new about that.
08 April 1963
"Thematically, it echoes the nature of the first film, but is ultimately quite different and more tightly constructed.
01 January 1982
"A silent, in-camera improv that contemplates the early autumn colors and forms of some weathered, wild blackberries growing along a rural Maine railroad track.
31 December 2000
Film by Abbott Meader and Walter Easton
16mm, 24:44 minutes, color, sound, 2000
01 January 1969
"This short film documents a day in our backyard while also standing in as a mini- creation myth. The film begins with word fragments written on the leader.
01 January 1978
A 16mm film by Abbott Meader, made as a visual response to the poem "Standing Here," by Karen Andersen Woodard.
30 August 1965
"This film, which dates from 1964, has always satisfied me. I believe the footage was completed before the assassination of Kennedy – an event that changed many things.
01 January 1968
"This short, silent film, a gallery of shots put together like a jazz improv, uses many devices to affect the image that comes from the camera.
06 November 1982
"The title of the film is that of the great 40 voice part motet by Thomas Tallis, (1505 -1585) which he composed around 1575, rather recently in geological time.
18 April 1964
"Here is the print of the film that I built up during last spring and summer. You all and others may find it able to speak something to you.
06 September 1964
"THE ELMS was my first sound film, in 1964, made after the assassination of JFK. I hoped that the title might bring to mind the American Elm tree, which was seen to be doomed by way of disease.
31 December 1985
Film by Abbott Meader and Walter Easton 16mm, 20:18 minutes, color, sound, 1983-1985
01 January 1972
"The film stars Bone, originally named Basil Catbone, a creature who survived several life threatening events to die at the age of 17.
31 December 1963
"It is really a rather simple film — a sensuous response to mid-winter, playing off light and dark, moving and still, animate and inanimate through the daydreaming of a one-eyed cat.
01 January 1965
"Back in the 60s my friend Duff Decker and I would swap sound tapes that we made at home from scraps of TV, radio, records, along with our own noises.
01 January 1981
"A black one-eyed cat -does he dream of summer and having two eyes? A faceless snowman thrives in winter's starkness.
30 January 1967
First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in style and sensibility but united by their opposition to the Vietnam War.
21 March 1969
Collective manifesto by the members of C.C.I. It is a collective film, the result of an operation devoid of any aesthetic purpose: to verify the existence of any harmony between a fairly large group (twelve people) of members of the independent Cooperative.
01 January 1979
American Odyssey is a look at Orff-Schulwerk in America in 1979. Filmed in 17 schools in 7 states, it documents the creative process in music, movement, dance, theater, and the spoken word, involving students and teachers from kindergarten through community chorus and orchestra.
01 January 1978
"Snake Dance was shown in United States Embassies in Africa in the late 1970s and early 1980s to show the American culture was not all Jim Crow and race riots.
01 January 1976
16mm film by Abbott Meader
01 January 1974
"I feel that some of the silent pieces might be seen as visual music. Perhaps a bit pretentious to say that, but such pieces as ISOLATION are something of the sort.
01 January 1977
"This is the fifth and final section of the 1977 film WEST BY NORTH. I feel it can stand by itself as a complete, if enigmatic statement.
