Margaret Tait: Subjects and Sequences

9/6/05 to 9/13/05

Where I Am Is Here, September 6

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- Tuesday, September 13 19:30
With a rare sense of inner rhythm and pattern, Tait found transcendental qualities in commonplace subjects. On this program are film poems featuring people and the places they live in, an evocation of childhood, and Tait's last film, made in 1998.
Film Poems
- Tuesday, September 6 19:30
Scottish artist Margaret Tait said her films were "born of sheer wonder and astonishment [at] how much can be seen in any place that you choose . . . if you really look." In the works on this program, made between 1951 and 1974, Tait looks closely at people and everyday experiences, exploring film as a medium for portraiture and poetry.

Margaret Tait: Subjects and Sequences

9/6/05 to 9/13/05

Scottish film-poet Margaret Tait (1918–1999) “studied at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome during the height of the neorealist movement, before founding her own film company, Ancona Films, and returning to Scotland in the early 1950s. Over forty-six years she produced more than thirty films (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 or diary films. She often quoted Lorca's phrase ‘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 gives her films a transcendental quality, while still remaining firmly...

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Subjects and Sequences features new and restored prints toured by LUX.

Margaret Tait: Subjects and Sequences

9/6/05 to 9/13/05

Past Films

Islands

Film Poems