non-fiction / Documentary film / Experimental film
1976
National Library of Scotland
Lingering shots of house and garden accompanied by music, song and poetry provide an appropriate goodbye to Margaret Tait's empty house and studio in Buttquoy, Orkney.
Part 3 of Margaret Tait's series 'Aspects of Kirkwall', covering special events in the town. These include the Orkney Agricultural Society County Show, boat race, Remembrance Parade at St. Magnus Cat...
Feature film / Documentary film / Experimental film
1952
National Library of Scotland
The 'Ga' of the title refers to the film maker's mother. The film gathers together this elderly lady's everyday actions to offer an abstract insight into her life.
The 'Land Makar' of the title is 'a poet of the land'. Margaret Tait described this film as 'A landscape study of an Orkney croft, with the figure of the crofter, Mary Graham Sinclair, very much in t...
A film poem in seven parts: 1. Complex, 2. Here and Now, 3. Interlude, 4. Crocodile, 5. Come and See This, 6. Out of this World, 7. The Bravest Boat. In Margaret Tait's own words "Starting with a ...
non-fiction / Documentary film / Experimental film
1981
National Library of Scotland
Part 5 in Margaret Tait's 'Aspects of Kirkwall' series. A tour around Kirkwall, covering the years 1969 - 1976. Places featured include St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall harbour, Victoria St, Broad St, ...
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