Screenplay: Margaret Tait

Direction Margaret Tait

Direction Margaret Tait

Direction Margaret Tait

Direction Margaret Tait

Direction Margaret Tait

Cast Celia Imrie · Jack Shepherd · Gerda Stevenson · James Fleet

Plot Barbara Thorburn wiles away the hours with memories of Greta, her mother, the poet.

Direction Margaret Tait

Direction Margaret Tait

Plot This film poem evokes childhood happiness on the island of Orkney. Footage includes wildflower meadows, toddlers playing in garden, friends fishing together and images of the sea.

Direction Margaret Tait

Plot A picture of East Sutherland in 1966, as the local crofters have been pushed off the land to be replaced by sheep and tourists.

Direction Margaret Tait

Plot A set of three 'film poems' composed around the theme of the garden - the central one featuring hand scratched animated drawings. Margaret Tait described them as follows: 'Round the...

Direction Margaret Tait

Plot A look at the day to day life of the inhabitants and workers of Rose Street in Scotland's capital city of Edinburgh.

Direction Luke Fowler

Cast Margaret Tait

Plot It centers on Margaret Tait's unrealised project about Orkney, drawing from her notes and footage to produce a blissful union of two artistic sensibilities.

Direction Margaret Tait

Plot 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.

Direction Margaret Tait

Plot A landscape study of an Orkney croft, with the figure of the crofter, Mary Graham Sinclair, very much in the picture, and enriched throughout by her vivid comments. Filmed over...