Margaret Tait
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).
A Portrait of Ga
as NarratorAnother early experiment in portraiture from Tait. In filming her mother she asks the wider...
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Being in a Place: A Portrait of Margaret Tait
as Self (archive footage)Drawing on a wealth of unseen archival material and unpublished notebooks, the film weaves a...
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Colour Poems
as Narrator'Titles within the film are: Numen of the Boughs, Old Boots, Speed Bonny Boat, Lapping Water,...
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The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo
as NarratorA film interpretation of the poem 'The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo' by Gerard Manley...
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Glimpses from a Visit to Orkney in Summer 1995
as herselfIn Aurand’s signature diaristic form, roses in bloom, farm animals, Orkney landscapes, and...
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Margaret Tait: Film Maker
as SelfA documentary about the life and works of Margaret Tait.
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