A Portrait of Ga
Margaret Tait
Small movements, gentle yet resolute. Smoking at the window, walking along a country lane, unwrapping a sweet. Margaret Tait films her mother and creates an abstract portrait, a vibrant and sensual series of loosely connected shots. An ode to the beauty of film footage and her life-experienced protagonist.
Margaret Tait
Margaret Tait (1918-1999) devoted herself to literature in addition to film, publishing three volumes of poetry, among other works. Her interest in poetry often found its way into her films, which she herself described as film-poems. Born in Scotland, she first studied medicine in Edinburgh and financed almost all of her films through her work as a doctor. This independence shaped her work, which she almost always created single-handedly.
Films by Margaret Tait (Selection)
Garden Pieces 1998 | Blue Black Permanent 1992 | On the Mountain 1974 | Where I Am Is Here 1964 | Happy Bees 1954
