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
- Hydro Poles by Helicopter ... (Director)
- Local News: Bu of Cairston Broch ... (Director)
- Shop! ... (Director)
1977
- Aspects of Kirkwall 3: Occasions ... (Director)
1976
- Tailpiece ... (Director)
- Place of Work ... (Director)
- Survivor ... (Director)
- Start of a Race, end of a show, etc. ... (Director)
1974
- These Walls ... (Director)
- Colour Poems as Narrator
- Aspects of Kirkwall 2: Shape of a Town ... (Director)
- Aerial ... (Director)
1973
- Eclipse ... (Director)
- On the Mountain ... (Director)
1970
- John MacFadyen ... (Director)
- Painted Eightsome ... (Director)
- Growing Up: Chinese Geese in Orkney ... (Director)
1969
- A Pleasant Place ... (Director)
1966
- Caora Mor: The Big Sheep ... (Director)
- Splashing ... (Director)
1964
- Palindrome ... (Director)
- Hugh MacDiarmid: A Portrait ... (Director)
- Where I Am Is Here ... (Director)
1958
- Edinburgh ... (Director)
1957
- The Drift Back ... (Director)
1956
- Rose Street ... (Director)
1955
- The Royal Mile Edinburgh ... (Director)
- Calypso ... (Director)
- Princes Street Edinburgh ... (Director)
- All These New Relations ... (Director)
- The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo as Narrator
- Edinburgh General ... (Director)
- Orquil Burn ... (Director)
1954
- Happy Bees ... (Director)
1952
- A Portrait of Ga as Narrator
1951
- My Room, Via Ancona 21 ... (Director)
- The Lion the Griffin and the Kangaroo ... (Director)
- One Is One ... (Director)
- Three Portrait Sketches ... (Cinematography)
1950
- Perugia in Umbria ... (Director)
1949
- Milano ... (Director)