Margaret Tait
Birthday: 1918-11-11
Place of Birth: Kirkwall, United Kingdom
Biography: Margaret Caroline Tait was a Scottish film maker and poet. Tait attended the University of Edinburgh, gaining qualifications in Medicine (1941). She later moved to Rome, where she studied filmmaking at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (1950–1952).
Movies
Colour Poems
'Titles within the film are: Numen of the Boughs, Old Boots, Speed Bonny Boat, Lapping Water, Incens...
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Being in a Place: A Portrait of Margaret Tait
Drawing on a wealth of unseen archival material and unpublished notebooks, the film weaves a complex...
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The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo
A film interpretation of the poem 'The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo' by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Ma...
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A Portrait of Ga
Another early experiment in portraiture from Tait. In filming her mother she asks the wider question...
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Glimpses from a Visit to Orkney in Summer 1995
In Aurand’s signature diaristic form, roses in bloom, farm animals, Orkney landscapes, and scenes of...
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