Subjects and Sequences

A Margaret Tait Reader (livre en anglais)

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Type: Etudes
Sujet: Réalisateur > Margaret Tait
Mots Clés: Margaret Tait, réalisateur, Grande-Bretagne
Année d'édition: 2006
Editeur: Wallflower Press
Langue: anglais

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Broché • 178 pages
14 x 20,5 cm

ISBN-10 ISBN-13

0-9548569-0-2
978-0-9548569-0-8

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Description de l'ouvrage :
Subjects and Sequences gathers together new essays on Orcadian film-poet Margaret Tait's work, interviews, reprints of key poems, a story and texts as well as a detailed filmography, a chronology, a bibliography, and resources. Full color throughout with extensive illustrations.

Margaret Tait was one of Britain's most unique and individual film makers. She studied at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome during the height of the neorealist movement, before founding her own film company, Ancona Films, and returning to Scotland in the early 1950s. Over 46 years she produced over 30 films, including one feature, Blue Black Permanent (1952), published three books of poetry and two volumes of short stories, while living between Orkney and Edinburgh.

Tait described her life's work as consisting of making film poems, and denied suggestions that they were documentaries or diary films. She often quoted Lorca's phrase of 'stalking the image' to define her philosophy and method, believing that if you look at an object closely enough it will speak its nature. This clarity of vision and purpose, with an attention to simple commonplace subjects, combined with a rare sense of inner rhythm and pattern give her films a transcendental quality, while still remaining firmly rooted within the everyday. With characteristic modesty, Tait once said of her films that they are born "of sheer wonder and astonshisment at how much can be seen in any place that you choose ... if you really look."

Subjects and Sequences gathers together new essays on Orcadian film-poet Margaret Tait's work, interviews, reprints of key poems, a story and texts as well as detailed filmography, chronology, bibliography and resources. Full colour throughout with extensive illustrations.

With contributions by: Ali Smith, Gareth Evans, Lucy Reynolds, David Curtis, Ute Aurand, Sarah Wood, Janet McBain and Alan Russell.

Revue de Presse :
A writer whose openness of mind, voice, and structure all come from the Beats maybe, and Whitman crossed with MacDiarmid, but then cut their own original (and crucially female) path. A unique and underrated filmmaker, nobody like her. Born of the Italian neorealists, formed of her own Scottish pragmatism, optimism, generosity and experimental spirit, and a clear forerunner of the English experimental directors of the late 20th century. A clear example of, and pioneer of, the poetic tradition, the experimental tradition, the democratic tradition, in the best of risk-taking Scottish cinema.
(Ali Smith)

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