Being in a Place – A Portrait of Margaret Tait. Drawing on a wealth of unseen archival material and unpublished notebooks, the film weaves a complex and personal portrait of Margaret Tait’s life, from the perspective of a fellow artist sensitive to the potential she envisaged for film as a poetic medium.
Drawing on a wealth of unseen archival material, including sound recordings, film rushes, offcuts and unpublished notebooks, Luke Fowler’s new feature film focuses on Margaret Tait, one of Scotland’s most enigmatic filmmakers. The film takes one of Tait’s unrealised scripts for Channel 4, entitled Heartlandscape: Visions of Ephemerality and Permanence, as its starting point and considers Tait’s life and work grounded within the landscape of Orkney. Tait was not interested in filming the scenery but instead looked at the precise details that constitute a place, the small things that are often overlooked. Exploring the process of filmmaking itself from the perspective of a fellow artist sensitive to Tait’s understanding of film as a poetic medium, Being in a Place pays tribute to the strengths in her method, the importance of fragmented bodies of work, and the intrinsic value in failure.
Winner of Cinéma du Réel 2024 Documetary Award.
Dir: Luke Fowler
UK 2023
Language: English
1hr
BBFC: U
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Beò an Àite: Dealbh de Mhairead Tait
Beò an Àite – Dealbh de Mhairead Tait, Arcaibh. A’ tarraing à tasglann nach deach fhaicinn roimhe seo, seann film agus làmh sgrìobhainn nach robh riamh an clò, tha am film a’ fighe dealbh ioma-fhillte agus pearsanta de bheatha Mairead Tait. Air innse bho thaobh luchd-ealain eile, b’ e an lèirsinn a bha aice air mar a dh’fhaodadh film a bhith na mheadhan air bàrdachd a thoirt seachad. Tha am film ùr aig Luke Fowler’s stèidhte air sgriobt a chaidh a chur gu Channel 4 (nach deach gabhail ris), Heartlandscape: Visions of Ephemerality and Permanence, agus a’ fighe a-steach a beatha ann an Arcaibh. Cha robh ùidh aice ann an sealladh-tìr ach na rudan mionaideach a tha a’ dèanamh an àrda an àite. Luke Fowler e fhèin na neach-ealain film, tha e a’ mìneachadh dòighean air filmichean a dhèanamh tro bàrdachd. Tha Beò an Àite a’ dèanamh luadh air na neartan aice, cho cudromach ‘s a tha bloighean de dh’obair agus luach ann an rudan nach eil ag obrachadh a-mach mar a tha an dùil.
Duais Aithris Cinéma du Réel 2024.
Stiùiriche: Luke Fowler
RA 2023
Cànan: Beurla
Uair a thìde
BBFC: U
