(Waterville, ME) There will be a screening of Abbott Meader's Deep Trout at the Common Street Gallery in Waterville on Saturday, February 11th at 7:00 pm. Abbot Meader's Deep Trout Trilogy is a "magical, tragi-comical Western adventure film” made in collaboration with the late artist Walter Easton. Meader is a painter, filmmaker, and professor of Art, emeritus of Colby College and is considered one of the stateʼs prominent landscape painters. Meader will be at the screening to introduce and talk about the film.

"During the working period of Deep Trout, we always found it difficult to describe or explain the film. Now it is complete; but the task is no easier. The film is a weaving of many threads and walks a fine line in many areas. It is about questing — about being a human —the restless creature. It tends to be about "this", but also about "that" - - dealing with that sense of contrast, paradox, and contradiction that we all meet constantly in our real living. It is a love story, an adventure, and a tale about growing and growing pains. It also thanks the gods for their greatest gift to Man — the gift of a sense of humor." — Abbott Meader

''Deep Trout is a pantheistic spiritual odyssey in which Walter Easton, as sculptor, weather vane maker, poet, spiritual warrior, trout fisherman, and Even-man, seeks the unity of man and nature. "Deep Trout is compounded of gorgeous natural images, trick photography magic, voice-over poetry, background music, and Easton's adventures as a kind of Chaplinesque wise fool. Short quotations from William Blake ('If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise') serve as chapter headings informing and linking each film segment. Remarkably, despite the bag of tricks Meader-Easton employs, Deep Trout has an unmistakable lyrical unity: it flows like the river of life it explores." — Maine Times

The film will be projected on screen in the original 16mm format. Admission is free. Common Street Gallery is located at 20 Common Street in Waterville. For more information, please call 207-749-4368, email info@commonstreetgallery.com or visit the Common Street Gallery website.

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