Margaret Tait

Margaret Caroline Tait (11 November 1918 16 April 1999) was a Scottish film maker and poet.

Life

Tait was born and raised in Kirkwall, in the Orkney Islands off the north coast of Scotland.

She died in Kirkwall in 1999.

Education

Tait attended the University of Edinburgh, gaining qualifications in Medicine (1941). She later moved to Rome, where she studied filmmaking at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (1950-1952).

Career

After studying in Italy, Tait returned to Scotland and founded Ancona Films. On her move back to Orkney] in the 1960s, Tait continued to make films and took inspiration from the landscape and culture of Orkney.

Tait made 32 short films and one full-length feature, Blue Black Permanent. In addition, Tait wrote prose and poetry, and published three poetry books - origins and elements, The Hen and the Bees, and Subjects and Sequences.

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