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Margaret
Tait: Subjects and Sequences
A LUX project, curated by Peter Todd,
with Scottish Screen and supported by Arts Council England, Esmée
Fairburn Foundation and Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney
20/27 March 2005 (2 programmes)
| Leeds Central Library, Municipal Buildings, Calverley Street,
Leeds, LS1 3AB | 6.30-7.45 pm | £4.50/3.50 per screening;
£8/6 two screenings; tickets
on the door only
Presented in Leeds by Lumen, these two screenings on consecutive
Sunday's feature newly restored prints of the film work of Scottish
artist, filmmaker and poet, Margaret Tait (1918-1999).
Margaret Tait was one of Britain's most unique and individual artist
filmmakers. Over the course of forty-six years she produced over
thirty films including one feature, Blue Black Permanent
(1992) and published five books of poetry and short stories, while
living between the Island of Orkney and Edinburgh. Margaret described
her life's work as consisting of making film-poems. She often quoted
Lorca's phrase of 'stalking the image' to define her philosophy
and method, the idea 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.
Margaret once said of her films, with characteristic modesty, that
they are born of 'of sheer wonder and astonishment at how much can
be seen in any place that you choose...if you really look'. —
Lux
"A writer whose openness of mind, voice and structure all come
from the Beats maybe, and Whitman crossed with MacDiarmid, but then
cut their own original (and crucially female) path. A unique and
underrated filmmaker, nobody like her. Born of the Italian neo-realists,
formed of her own Scottish pragmatism, optimism, generosity and
experimental spirit, and a clear forerunner of the English experimental
directors of the late 20th century. A clear example of, and pioneer
of, the poetic tradition, the experimental tradition, the democratic
tradition, in the best of risk-taking Scottish cinema." —
Lux Online
Films
Programme 1: Film Poems
Film explored as a portrait medium with an early work made while
studying in Rome, two affectionate portraits, and two ground breaking
film poems.
Three Portrait Sketches, 1951, 5 mins, 16mm, silent, b/w
Portrait of Ga, 1952. 4 mins 16 secs, 16mm, colour, sound
Aerial, 1974, 4 mins, 16mm, sound,
colour
Hugh MacDiarmid A Portrait, 1964, 8 mins 5 secs, 16mm,
b/w
Colour Poems, 1974, 11 mins 20 secs, 16mm, sound, colour.
Where I Am Is Here, 1964, 32 mins 48 secs, 16mm, sound,
b/w
Programme 2: Islands
People and the places they live, from childhood to a last film.
The Drift Back, 1957, 10 mins 56 secs, 16mm, b/w, sound
Happy Bees, 1955, 16 mins 7secs, 16mm, colour, sound
Place of Work, 1976, 29 mins 56 secs, 16mm, colour, sound
Tailpiece, 1976, 9 mins, b/w, sound
Garden Pieces, 1998, 11 mins 30 secs, colour, sound
Further information
Margaret
Tait profile on Lux Online
Subjects and Sequences: A Margaret Tait
Reader
Subjects and Sequences gathers together new essays on Margaret Tait's
work, interviews, reprints of key poems, a story and texts as well
as detailed filmography, chronology, bibliography and resources.
Edited by Peter Todd and Benjamin Cook with contributions by Ali
Smith, Gareth Evans, Lucy Reynolds, David Curtis, Ute Aurand, Janet
McBain and Alan Russell. Published by LUX, November 2004.
Available from LUX
SHOP for £10 including p&p
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