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  • 1952
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    A Portrait of Ga

    A Portrait of Ga

    6.20 1952 HD

    Another early experiment in portraiture from Tait. In filming her mother she asks the wider question of how much the camera can reveal of the person.

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  • 1955
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    The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo

    The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo

    5.40 1955 HD

    A film interpretation of the poem 'The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo' by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Margaret Tait speaks the poem throughout the film.

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  • 1981
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    Land Makar

    Land Makar

    6.00 1981 HD

    "This is a landscape study of an Orkney croft, with the figure of the crofter, Mary Graham Sinclair, very much in the picture. The croft is West...

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  • 1998
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    Garden Pieces

    Garden Pieces

    7.00 1998 HD

    A set of three 'film poems' composed around the theme of the garden - the central one featuring hand scratched animated drawings. Margaret Tait...

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  • 1964
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    Hugh MacDiarmid: A Portrait

    Hugh MacDiarmid: A Portrait

    4.20 1964 HD

    A portrait of poet Hugh MacDiarmid.

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  • 1974
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    Colour Poems

    Colour Poems

    7.70 1974 HD

    'Titles within the film are: Numen of the Boughs, Old Boots, Speed Bonny Boat, Lapping Water, Incense, Aha, Brave New World, Things, Terra Firma. A...

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  • 1976
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    Place of Work

    Place of Work

    9.00 1976 HD

    Margaret Tait documents her house, studio and garden in Buttquoy, Orkney as the seasons pass. She had lived there from the age of seven and often...

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  • 1964
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    Palindrome

    Palindrome

    1 1964 HD

    A palindrome created on film. Features interaction between a couple with the recurring line 'Madam I'm Adam'.

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  • 1964
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    Where I Am Is Here

    Where I Am Is Here

    7.00 1964 HD

    "Starting with a six-line script which just noted down a kind of event to occur, and recur, my aim was to construct a film with its own logic, its...

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  • 1956
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    Rose Street

    Rose Street

    6.00 1956 HD

    The minutiae of daily life on Edinburgh's Rose Street in the fifties is presented in this impressionistic documentary piece.

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  • 1966
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    Splashing

    Splashing

    7.00 1966 HD

    An experimental piece of film-making by Margaret Tait, featuring three children at play in a burn and garden, splashing and having fun playing with...

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  • 1976
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    Tailpiece

    Tailpiece

    1 1976 HD

    "The film was conceived as a coda to a longer (colour) film, Place of Work, made in the same year. It covers the time of finally emptying a long-time...

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  • 1955
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    All These New Relations

    All These New Relations

    1 1955 HD

    Affectionate observational shots of toddlers, school age girl and very new baby.

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  • 1976
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    Survivor

    Survivor

    1 1976 HD

    Unedited slates from a film called 'Survivor' filmed by Margaret Tait. Footage includes outdoor landscape and garden scenes, a fire burning in field...

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  • 1966
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    Caora Mor: The Big Sheep

    Caora Mor: The Big Sheep

    1 1966 HD

    A picture of East Sutherland in 1966.

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  • 1970
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    Painted Eightsome

    Painted Eightsome

    1 1970 HD

    Margaret Tait described this title as 'An eightsome reel played by Orkney Strathspey and Reel Society, recorded in about 1955 - 1956, later...

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