Scottish filmmaker Margaret Tait in conversation with video artist Tamara Krikorian.
Interiors of Margaret Tait's room when she stayed at 21 Via Ancona, Rome, Italy. Brief shots of her belongings (shoes, films, teacup) and then views of the street as seen from a balcony window.
围绕花园主题创作的一套三首“电影诗”——其中一首以手绘动画为特色。玛格丽特·泰特对他们的描述如下：“围着花园转”——一圈又一圈，“花园传单”——轻快的卡通，一首钢琴曲的绝技，以及“格罗夫”——庄重而铿锵有力。
玛格丽特-泰特这样描述这部影片。
这是一部关于奥克尼岛农庄的风景研究，农夫玛丽-格雷厄姆-辛克莱尔的身影在画面中非常明显，她生动的评论使整个画面更加丰富。在1977年和1980年之间的几个季节里拍摄的，它记录了许多改变土地面貌的人类活动。庄稼地位于一个小湖的边缘，天鹅和其他鸟类在草地上筑巢。它以古老的方式工作，虽然在适当的时候会使用机械化的辅助工具，但很多事情都是由一个女人的劳动完成的。庄稼是干草、萝卜、土豆、甘蓝和燕麦；庄稼地还养了几头牛，并喂养了一小群母鸡和几只鸭子 .... Makar "是一个苏格兰词，意思是 "诗人"。这部电影的工作原理是，这些序列就像一些画布一样'。
Adaptation of a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Luke Fowler’s portrait of Scottish poet and filmmaker Margaret Tait takes its inspiration from her unrealised project about her home region of Orkney, drawing and riffing on her notes and footage to produce a blissful union of two artistic sensibilities.
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Again a proof of Tait's genius for portraiture, and a film about the notion of portraiture itself and the investure of love in the seen portrait.
What is film for Why is it different from still photography, where it comes to seeing its subject What can it tell us about someone
How somebody moves. How somebody is still.
Her mother sits in a landscape, keeping time to a tune w...
John Macfadyen (The Stripes in the Tartan) (1970, 4 mins)
Painted directly onto film with a march tune entitled John Macfadyen.
Margaret Tait was one of Britain's most unique and individual artist filmmakers. Over the course of 46 years she produced over 30 films including one feature, Blue Black Permanent (1992) and published five books of poetry and short stories, while livin...
Tailpiece (1976, 9 mins)
"A coda to Place of Work, is more personalised, more allusive and less naturalistic. The house is being vacated, it is now clear. Children's voices repeating handed-down rhymes and rigmarole's suggest past time as well as now, and there are other rEverberations into past and future coming from the handling of objects, revealing of marks of walls, mirror...
A look at the day to day life of the inhabitants and workers of Rose Street in Scotland's capital city of Edinburgh.
