A film interpretation of the poem 'The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo' by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Margaret Tait speaks the poem throughout the film.

A set of three 'film poems' composed around the theme of the garden - the central one featuring hand scratched animated drawings. Margaret Tait...

Another early experiment in portraiture from Tait. In filming her mother she asks the wider question of how much the camera can reveal of the person.

Unedited slates from a film called 'Survivor' filmed by Margaret Tait. Footage includes outdoor landscape and garden scenes, a fire burning in field...

'Titles within the film are: Numen of the Boughs, Old Boots, Speed Bonny Boat, Lapping Water, Incense, Aha, Brave New World, Things, Terra Firma. A...

"Starting with a six-line script which just noted down a kind of event to occur, and recur, my aim was to construct a film with its own logic, its...

"This is a landscape study of an Orkney croft, with the figure of the crofter, Mary Graham Sinclair, very much in the picture. The croft is West...

A portrait of poet Hugh MacDiarmid.

"The film was conceived as a coda to a longer (colour) film, Place of Work, made in the same year. It covers the time of finally emptying a long-time...

Margaret Tait described this title as 'An eightsome reel played by Orkney Strathspey and Reel Society, recorded in about 1955 - 1956, later...

A palindrome created on film. Features interaction between a couple with the recurring line 'Madam I'm Adam'.

A picture of East Sutherland in 1966.

The minutiae of daily life on Edinburgh's Rose Street in the fifties is presented in this impressionistic documentary piece.

An experimental piece of film-making by Margaret Tait, featuring three children at play in a burn and garden, splashing and having fun playing with...

Margaret Tait documents her house, studio and garden in Buttquoy, Orkney as the seasons pass. She had lived there from the age of seven and often...

Affectionate observational shots of toddlers, school age girl and very new baby.

Répondant à l'appel de l'océan, Vaiana s'aventure pour la première fois par-delà le récif de son île...

Quatre ans se sont écoulés, Peter, désormais adulte, vit seul, s'est volontairement effacé de la vie et des souvenirs de...

Un pilote de la Navy envoyé en mission secrète durant la guerre froide se retrouve piégé en territoire ennemi. Son seul...

Vingt ans après son départ pour la guerre de Troie, le roi Ulysse rentre enfin à Ithaque, mais son voyage est parsemé...

Maia Marten, une brillante avocate londonienne, voit sa vie basculer quand un appel durant son jogging lui annonce que son fils a été...

Et si vous pouviez réaliser votre rêve le plus fou ? Un jeune introverti met la main sur un objet magique capable d’exaucer...

Une famille de sorcières multigénérationnelle, maudite à être sans amour pendant des siècles, tente de...