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  • Margaret Tait: 'The Cinema I care about is at the level of poetry'

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    Portrait of Ga (Margaret Tait, 1952)

    These words come from Scottish artist and filmmaker Margaret Tait (1918–1999), who would have turned 100 on November 11th. With 11 short films on 11.11 and her only feature on 17.11, we are honoring her uniquely poetic work. The unique thing about Tait’s films is their interest in the unspectacular: “Her images are accessible (a thistle is inevitably a thistle), they are of the everyday and, on this level, a representation of things as they are.

    Dates: 

    Sunday, November 11, 2018 (All day)
    Saturday, November 17, 2018 (All day)

    Venue: 

    Arsenal - Institute for Film and Video Art

  • Los Angeles Filmforum: Two Nights of Films by Ute Aurand and Margaret Tait

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    Half Moon for Margaret (Ute Aurand, 2004)

    Los Angeles Filmforum is pleased to present two nights of the work of Berlin-based filmmaker Ute Aurand with the artist in attendance. Stemming from the lyrical tradition of diary filmmaking and artisanal practices, her active and playful films emphasize the natural and social worlds through intimate forms of portraiture.  She gives distinct attention to the inner dialogues of thought and the tactile experiences of women.

    Dates: 

    Thursday, October 25, 2018 (All day)
    Sunday, October 28, 2018 (All day)

    Venue: 

    Echo Park Film Center

  • Light Movement 29: Spring Portraits

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    First Weeks (Robert Beavers, 2014)

    The program Spring Portraits groups together filmmakers who at times deal loosely with the theme of portraits - either of people, places, atmospheres, and who mostly also have, in some way, a connection to the city of Berlin. Some are long established names, others are making their first film - what is important is that they share some sensibility - and a belief in films power as a medium to transcend mere representation whilst simultaneously capturing something of life's fleeting moments.

    *all films will be shown on film

    Dates: 

    Saturday, April 21, 2018 - 20:00

    Venue: 

    SPEKTRUM

  • Light Movement 23: OPEN DOORS curated by Ute Aurand (Berlin) and Peter Todd (London)

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    Every year or two Ute Aurand and Peter Todd meet up to continue a filmic conversation. OPEN DOORS is their third program curated together. A film by the Scottish filmmaker Margaret Tait is often shown as a reference to how Aurand and Todd's joint interest in her work fIrst brought them together. In OPEN DOORS they have selected films in which the filmmakers' observations and feelings become visible beyond obvious narratives.

    Dates: 

    Sunday, July 23, 2017 - 20:00

    Venue: 

    SPEKTRUM

  • Between Categories: The Films of Margaret Tait: Portraits, Poetry, Sound and Place

    Between Categories: The Films of Margaret Tait: Portraits, Poetry, Sound and Place

    Margaret Tait – filmmaker, photographer, poet, painter, essayist and short story writer – is one of the UK’s most unique and remarkable filmmakers. She was the first female filmmaker to create a feature-length film in Scotland (Blue Black Permanent, 1992). Although for most of her career Tait remained focused on the goal of making a feature-length film, her most notable and groundbreaking work was arguably as a producer of short films.

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  • Edge of Frame: Elemental Animation

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    Landfill 16 by Jennifer Reeves (2011)

    A programme of works which use the material of film itself as a canvas. These visceral, vibrant films feature camera-less techniques such as scratching, painting and printing onto the filmstrip, subjecting film to decay and decomposition, and affixing materials such as letraset or insects to its surface. The remarkable visions created through these diverse approaches fill the frame with dynamic textures and colour, and many will be presented on 16mm and 35mm prints. Seen in the cinema, these works achieve a powerful effect, immersing us in strange and previously unseen worlds, and displaying the breadth and scope of abstract film.

    Dates: 

    Friday, December 2, 2016 - 20:00

    Venue: 

    Close-Up Cinema

  • Light Movement 16: Margaret Tait

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    Where I Am Is Here (Margaret Tait, 1964)

    Margaret Tait was one of Britain's most unique and individual artist filmmakers. Over the course of 46 years she produced over 30 films including one feature, and published three books of poetry and two volumes of short stories, while living between Orkney and Edinburgh.

    Dates: 

    Sunday, October 16, 2016 - 20:00

    Venue: 

    SPEKTRUM

  • Xcèntric: A camera of one’s own. Film portraits and diaries by Ute Aurand, Margaret Tait and Marie Menken

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    Paulina (Ute Aurand, 2011)

    A central figure on Berlin’s film scene, Ute Aurand makes her films in the tradition of the diary and the filmed portrait, strongly influenced by Margaret Tait, Marie Menken and Jonas Mekas. Films that explore the private lives of her friends, the beauty and sensibility of light and the textures of spaces, meticulously edited and structured “that evoke the specific rhythms and the personality of people and places captured by the camera”. This programme centres primarily on the recent filmed portraits of Aurand, whose work has just started to become known internationally in the last few years. It is brought together with that of Tait and Menken, with the presentation of a little-known film made on a trip to Spain with Kenneth Anger and left unfinished. Ute Aurand will be present at the screening.

    Dates: 

    Thursday, February 6, 2014 - 20:00

    Venue: 

    Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona

  • Environmental Agency: A Landscape Film Programme

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    Water Wrackets (Peter Greenaway, 1975)Environmental Agency: A Landscape Film Programme
    Tuesday March 5 2013, 18:20h
    BFI Southbank
    Belvedere Road, South Bank, London SE1 8XT

    The awe-inspiring power of nature and its associated weather systems as explored across a range of groundbreaking works by renowned artist filmmakers. Subtle shifts in natural light, delicate tidal movements and the terraforming power of seasonal change determine the shape and structure of several of the films here. Others reflect with great beauty on the impact that nature has on our lives as an alchemical, elemental force. A timely programme for today’s changing world.

    Breath (1975. William Raban. 16min); Colour Separation (1976. Chris Welsby. 2min); Colours of This Time (1972. William Raban. 4min); Water Wrackets (1975. Peter Greenaway. 12min); Three Short Landscape Films (1979. Renny Croft. 6min); Walk (1975. Jenny Okun. 5min); Bridge (1980. John Woodman. 4min); Aerial (1974. Margaret Tait. 4min); Aspect (2004. Emily Richardson. 9min); Proximity (2006. Inger Lise Hansen. 4min)

    Introduced by artist John Woodman and BFI National Archive curator William Fowler.

    The programme will be followed by a launch in the BFI Shop of two new LUX titles on DVD: Trilogy (Inger Lise Hansen) and Landscape Films 1977-1982 (John Woodman).

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