Deep Trout Trilogy
by Abbott Meader and Walter Easton
Running time 90 minutes

Deep Trout, 45 minutes, 1981
Prologue to Echo Me, 20 minutes, 1985
Trout Fly, Deep Trout Too, 25 minutes, 2000
Extra Feature
“Program Notes with Abbott Meader”, 21 minutes, 2004

"Deep Trout has an unmistakable lyrical quality;
it flows like the river of life it explores"
Edgar A. Beem Maine Times 1982

"Best trout film I've seen all week"
Tim Sample

Filmed entirely on the lakes, streams, and woods of Maine.

The Deep Trout Trilogy by artist and filmmaker Abbott Meader and artist and writer Walter Easton is comprised of individual films completed over a period of twenty years. Now they are brought together as a revealing 90 minute program, along with a new interview with Meader reflecting on the life and work of his colleague, who died in 2003.

Deep Trout is a magical, tragi-comical Western adventure film. In it Walter Easton steps forward as both himself and a wandering "Everyman".

Prologue to Echo Me employs metaphoric and documentary footage to probe the sources and the trials of Easton's creative process as a sculptor.

Trout Fly, Deep Trout Too presents an older, constrained, but indomitable Walter Easton as he once again heads off on his quest for self knowledge and whats to be found on the opposite shore.

Program Notes with Abbott Meader a behind the scenes interview was directed by Huey. Abbott Meader and Huey have collaborated on films since the 1970s including working together on "Wilderness and Spirit, A Mountain Called Katahdin."

Deep Trout was a prize winner at Ann Arbor Film Festival, 1982, and was part of AAF's national tour.

DVD is $19.95 plus tax for Maine residents. $3 shipping, $1 for each additional DVD.
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Meader's Bio
Abbott Meader son of Albion, Maine natives is a painter, filmmaker , and professor of Art, emeritus of Colby College. He is author of many short films in 16mm which have been shown widely on the underground film circuits.