MARGARET TAIT - FILM MAKER
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Title: margaret tait - film maker
Reference number: 8580
Date: 1983
Director: d. margaret Williams
Sponsor: Channel 4, Arts Council of Great Britain
Producer: Fizz Oliver
Production company: Arbor International
Sound: sound
Colour: bwcol
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 34.08 mins
Description:
Portrait of margaret tait, including extracts from many of her films. In interviews, she talks about her introduction to the cinema in Italy and her move to Scotland where she began making her own films. She discusses the important influences of poetry, music and Eastern philosphy on her approach to filmmaking. [BFI Library synopsis]
The BFI preserve this programme. See https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoicefilmWorks/150233047# [last accessed 16/02/2024]
Credits:
margaret tait interviewed by Tamara Krikorian
series ed. David Curtis
we wish to thank the London film makers Co-Op
music in extracts by Francis George Scott, Hector MacAndrew
singers Duncan Robertson & Lilane
camera
London: Derek Waterman, Patrick Duval
Edinburgh Erika Stevenson, David Bryant
sd. John Anderson, Phil Croal
dubbing mixer Dean Humphreys
ed. Jo Ann Kaplan
ass. ed. Li Guy
d. margaret Williams
p. Fiz Oliver
An Arbor International Production for Channel 4 Arts Council of Great Britain