Name Margaret Tait Role Film-maker | Spouse Alex Pine (m. 1968–1999) | |
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Movies A Portrait of Ga, Blue Black Permanent, Colour Poems Similar People Gerda Stevenson, Celia Imrie, Hilary Maclean, James Fleet, Liz Robertson | ||
Margaret tait experimental filmmaker 2011 documentary
Margaret Caroline Tait (11 November 1918 – 16 April 1999) was a Scottish film maker and poet.
Contents
- Margaret tait experimental filmmaker 2011 documentary
- Hugh macdiarmid a portrait by margaret tait 1964
- Life
- Education
- Career
- Filmography
- References
Hugh macdiarmid a portrait by margaret tait 1964
Life
Tait was born and raised in Kirkwall, in the Orkney Islands off the north coast of mainland Scotland.
She died in Kirkwall in 1999.
Education
Tait attended the University of Edinburgh, gaining qualifications in Medicine (1941). She later moved to Rome, where she studied filmmaking at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (1950–1952).
Career
After studying in Italy, Tait returned to Scotland and founded Ancona Films. On her move back to Orkney] in the 1960s, Tait continued to make films and took inspiration from the landscape and culture of Orkney.
In 50s and 60s' Edinburgh she was close to, though not a member of, the Rose Street Poets, which included such figures as Hugh MacDiarmid, Sorley Maclean and Norman MacCaig.
Tait made 32 short films and one full-length feature, Blue Black Permanent. In addition, Tait wrote prose and poetry, and published three poetry books - origins and elements, The Hen and the Bees, and Subjects and Sequences.