Margaret Tait 100 https://www.margarettait100.com News on nationwide celebrations of filmmaker and poet Margaret Tait's centenary 2018–2019 Mon, 30 Sep 2019 11:36:28 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9 Garden Pieces 2001 https://mt100.luxscotland.org.uk/2019/09/30/garden-pieces-2001/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=garden-pieces-2001 Mon, 30 Sep 2019 11:35:23 +0000 https://mt100.luxscotland.org.uk/?p=1254 “Garden Pieces” programme notes (2001). Courtesy of Peter Todd.

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]]> Film Poems 4: Messages 2003 https://mt100.luxscotland.org.uk/2019/09/30/film-poems-4-messages-2003/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=film-poems-4-messages-2003 Mon, 30 Sep 2019 11:26:41 +0000 https://mt100.luxscotland.org.uk/?p=1251 “Film Poems 4: Messages” programme notes (2003). Courtesy of Peter Todd.

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]]> Film Poems 3 2001 https://mt100.luxscotland.org.uk/2019/09/30/film-poems-3-2001/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=film-poems-3-2001 Mon, 30 Sep 2019 11:24:07 +0000 https://mt100.luxscotland.org.uk/?p=1248 “Film Poems 3” programme notes (2001). Courtesy of Peter Todd.

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]]> Film Poems 2: Moments/Histories/Feelings 2000 https://mt100.luxscotland.org.uk/2019/09/16/film-poems-2-2000/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=film-poems-2-2000 Mon, 16 Sep 2019 10:19:22 +0000 https://mt100.luxscotland.org.uk/?p=1232 “Film Poems 2: Moments/Histories/Feelings” programme notes (2000). Courtesy of Peter Todd.

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]]> Film Poems 1999 https://mt100.luxscotland.org.uk/2019/09/16/film-poems-1999/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=film-poems-1999 Mon, 16 Sep 2019 10:10:31 +0000 https://mt100.luxscotland.org.uk/?p=1224 “Film Poems” programme notes (1999). Courtesy of Peter Todd.

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]]> Audience reponses to Blue Black Permanent https://mt100.luxscotland.org.uk/2019/07/01/audience-reponses-to-blue-black-permanent/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=audience-reponses-to-blue-black-permanent Mon, 01 Jul 2019 14:20:37 +0000 https://mt100.luxscotland.org.uk/?p=1160 Comments from ‘The Persistence of Spirit’: Blue Black Permanent (Screening & Reunion of Cast and Crew) on 15 June 2019 at Summerhall, Edinburgh   Anonymous Such a beautiful film. Fascinating to see the themes and imagery from Margaret’s shorts come through and be developed. The ending destroyed me. Michael Romer Wonderful to see Blue Black […]

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]]> Michael Romer: “Poetry in Blue Black Permanent” https://mt100.luxscotland.org.uk/2019/06/10/michael-romer-poetry-in-blue-black-permanent/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=michael-romer-poetry-in-blue-black-permanent Mon, 10 Jun 2019 11:05:05 +0000 https://mt100.luxscotland.org.uk/?p=1136 Michael Romer, “Poetry in Blue Black Permanent,” Cencrastus, No. 82 (2006) pp. 8–13. Courtesy of Michael Romer.

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]]> Sarah Neely: “‘Ploughing a lonely furrow’- Margaret Tait and ‘professional’ filmmaking practices in 1950s Scotland” https://mt100.luxscotland.org.uk/2019/05/15/sarah-neely-ploughing-a-lonely-furrow-margaret-tait-and-professional-filmmaking-practices-in-1950s-scotland/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sarah-neely-ploughing-a-lonely-furrow-margaret-tait-and-professional-filmmaking-practices-in-1950s-scotland Wed, 15 May 2019 15:35:11 +0000 https://mt100.luxscotland.org.uk/?p=1069 Sarah Neely, “‘Ploughing a lonely furrow’- Margaret Tait and ‘professional’ filmmaking practices in 1950s Scotland,” in Ian Craven (ed), Movies on Home Ground – Explorations in Amateur Cinema (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009), pp. 301-326. Courtesy of Sarah Neely.

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]]> Sarah Neely: “The bits of ourselves we leave behind: an essay in fragments” https://mt100.luxscotland.org.uk/2019/05/15/sarah-neely-the-bits-of-ourselves-we-leave-behind-an-essay-in-fragments/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sarah-neely-the-bits-of-ourselves-we-leave-behind-an-essay-in-fragments Wed, 15 May 2019 15:25:51 +0000 https://mt100.luxscotland.org.uk/?p=1052 This essay takes its title from Margaret Tait’s own writing. It is structured as a kind of a collage—with extracts from a soon to be published academic book of mine,[1] placed alongside fragments of Tait’s writing, and descriptions of some of the more ephemeral objects in the archive, many of which are not always easily explored […]

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]]> Sarah Neely: Margaret Tait Resources https://mt100.luxscotland.org.uk/2019/05/15/sarah-neely-margaret-tait-resources/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sarah-neely-margaret-tait-resources Wed, 15 May 2019 15:02:18 +0000 https://mt100.luxscotland.org.uk/?p=1048 Books Tait, M. (1959a). origins and elements (poems). Edinburgh: M.C. Tait. Cover by Peter Hollander. Tait, M. (1959b). Lane Furniture: A Book of Stories. Edinburgh: M.C. Tait. Tait, M. (1959c). The Grassy Stories: Short Stories for Children. Edinburgh: M.C. Tait. Tait, M. (1960a). The Hen and the Bees: Legends and Lyrics (poems). Edinburgh: M.C. Tait. […]

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