Director
Margaret Tait
107 years · Kirkwall, United Kingdom · 28 films
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).
Best known for
Filmography 28
Being in a Place: A Portrait of Margaret Tait
2024 · Self (archive footage)
On DocAlliance Films
Glimpses from a Visit to Orkney in Summer 1995
2020 · herself
Garden Pieces
1998 · Director
Blue Black Permanent
1992 · Director, Writer
On OVID
Margaret Tait: Film Maker
1983 · Self
Land Makar
1981 · Director
Hydro Poles by Helicopter
1978 · Director
Place of Work
1976 · Director, Writer
Tailpiece
1976 · Director, Writer
Start of a Race, end of a show, etc.
1976 · Director
Survivor
1976 · Director
Colour Poems
1974 · Narrator, Director
Aerial
1974 · Director
Eclipse
1973 · Director
On the Mountain
1973 · Director
Painted Eightsome
1970 · Director
A Pleasant Place
1969 · Director, Editor
Where I Am Is Here
1964 · Writer, Director
Edinburgh
1958 · Director
Rose Street
1956 · Director, Writer
The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo
1955 · Narrator, Director
Calypso
1955 · Director
All These New Relations
1955 · Director
Happy Bees
1954 · Director