Doors: 19:30 / Start time: 20:00
Entrance 5-10 euro (up to your offer)

Margaret Tait

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, and published three books of poetry and two volumes of short stories, while living between Orkney and Edinburgh.

Tait described her life's work as consisting of making film-poems, and denied suggestions that they were documentaries of diary films. She often quoted Lorca's phrase of "stalking the image" to define her philosophy and method, believing that if you look at an object closely enough it will speak its nature. This clarity of vision and purpose, with an attention to simple commonplace subjects, combined with a rare sense of inner rhythm and pattern, give her films a transcendental quality, while still remaining firmly rooted within the everyday. With characteristic modesty, Tait once said of her films, that they are born "of sheer wonder and astonishment at how much can be seen in any place that you choose ... if you really look".

PROGRAM 

• Three Portrait Sketches, UK, 1951, 10min, B&W, Silent, 16mm
• A Portrait of Ga, UK, 1952, 5min Colour, sound, 16mm
• Where I Am Is Here, UK, 1964, 35min, B&W, sound, 16mm

Event curated by James Edmonds as part of the Light Movement series