Ancona Films Movies
- 1998
Garden Pieces
Garden Pieces71998HD
A set of three 'film poems' composed around the theme of the garden - the central one featuring hand scratched animated drawings. Margaret Tait...
- 1952
A Portrait of Ga
A Portrait of Ga6.21952HD
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.
- 1974
Colour Poems
Colour Poems7.71974HD
'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...
- 1966
Splashing
Splashing71966HD
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...
- 1981
Land Makar
Land Makar61981HD
"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...
- 1955
The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo
The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo5.41955HD
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.
- 1955
All These New Relations
All These New Relations01955HD
Affectionate observational shots of toddlers, school age girl and very new baby.
- 1976
Tailpiece
Tailpiece01976HD
"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...
- 1964
Where I Am Is Here
Where I Am Is Here71964HD
"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...
- 1964
Hugh MacDiarmid: A Portrait
Hugh MacDiarmid: A Portrait4.21964HD
A portrait of poet Hugh MacDiarmid.
- 1956
Rose Street
Rose Street61956HD
The minutiae of daily life on Edinburgh's Rose Street in the fifties is presented in this impressionistic documentary piece.
- 1976
Place of Work
Place of Work91976HD
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...
- 1964
Palindrome
Palindrome01964HD
A palindrome created on film. Features interaction between a couple with the recurring line 'Madam I'm Adam'.
- 1976
Survivor
Survivor01976HD
Unedited slates from a film called 'Survivor' filmed by Margaret Tait. Footage includes outdoor landscape and garden scenes, a fire burning in field...
- 1970
Painted Eightsome
Painted Eightsome01970HD
Margaret Tait described this title as 'An eightsome reel played by Orkney Strathspey and Reel Society, recorded in about 1955 - 1956, later...
- 1966
Caora Mor: The Big Sheep
Caora Mor: The Big Sheep01966HD
A picture of East Sutherland in 1966.