"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...

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.

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

"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...

'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...

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.

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

A picture of East Sutherland in 1966.

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...

A portrait of poet Hugh MacDiarmid.

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

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

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

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...

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

Lorsque son fermier bien-aimé est retrouvé mort dans des circonstances mystérieuses, un troupeau de moutons conclut qu'il devra...

Buzz, Woody, Jessie et le reste de la bande verront leur travail remis en question lorsqu'ils découvriront que ce qui obsède les...

Nick Tosches, un écrivain, apprend qu'un manuscrit de La Divine Comédie de Dante, volé au Vatican, est réapparu à...

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

Doté d'une ouïe exceptionnelle, un jeune accordeur de piano voit sa vie basculer lorsque son talent attire l'attention de criminels qui...

Lorsqu’un ennemi inattendu et impitoyable surgit, Kara Zor-El est forcée, malgré elle, de faire équipe avec un compagnon...

Une équipe de boosters (c’est-à-dire des voleurs à l’étalage professionnels) décident de s’en...

Rick, un chanteur de mariage délavé, et Danny, une vedette de boys band en perte de vitesse, se lient autour de la musique et d'une...