Margaret Tait
Born: 1918-11-11 in Kirkwall, United Kingdom
Died: 1999-04-16
Known For: Directing
Biography
Margaret Caroline Tait was a Scottish film maker and poet. 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).
Filmography
2024
- Being in a Place: A Portrait of Margaret Tait as Self (archive footage)
2020
2014
- Before Words ... (Writer)
1998
- Garden Pieces ... (Director)
1992
- Blue Black Permanent ... (Director)
1983
- Margaret Tait: Film Maker as Self
1981
- Land Makar ... (Director)
- Aspects of Kirkwall No. 5: The Look of the Place ... (Director)
- Aspects of Kirkwall 6: Some Changes ... (Director)
1980
- Aspects of Kirkwall 4: The Ba ... (Director)
1978
- Shop! ... (Director)
- Local News: Bu of Cairston Broch ... (Director)
- Hydro Poles by Helicopter ... (Director)
1977
- Aspects of Kirkwall 3: Occasions ... (Director)
1976
- Survivor ... (Director)
- Tailpiece ... (Director)
- Place of Work ... (Director)
- Start of a Race, end of a show, etc. ... (Director)
1974
- Colour Poems as Narrator
- Aerial ... (Director)
- Aspects of Kirkwall 2: Shape of a Town ... (Director)
- These Walls ... (Director)
1973
- Eclipse ... (Director)
- On the Mountain ... (Director)
1970
- Painted Eightsome ... (Director)
- Growing Up: Chinese Geese in Orkney ... (Director)
- John MacFadyen ... (Director)
1969
- A Pleasant Place ... (Director)
1966
- Caora Mor: The Big Sheep ... (Director)
- Splashing ... (Director)
1964
- Where I Am Is Here ... (Director)
- Palindrome ... (Director)
- Hugh MacDiarmid: A Portrait ... (Director)
1958
- Edinburgh ... (Director)
1957
- The Drift Back ... (Director)
1956
- Rose Street ... (Director)
1955
- The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo as Narrator
- Calypso ... (Director)
- All These New Relations ... (Director)
- Edinburgh General ... (Director)
- Orquil Burn ... (Director)
- The Royal Mile Edinburgh ... (Director)
- Princes Street Edinburgh ... (Director)
1954
- Happy Bees ... (Director)
1952
- A Portrait of Ga as Narrator
1951
- One Is One ... (Director)
- Three Portrait Sketches ... (Director)
- My Room, Via Ancona 21 ... (Director)
- The Lion the Griffin and the Kangaroo ... (Director)
1950
- Perugia in Umbria ... (Director)
1949
- Milano ... (Director)