Posts Tagged ‘Tait’


2.5 Colour Poems (1974)

Colour Poems (1974) Can 40: Colour master positive, Comopt, 16mm, 408ft, 1974. Can 41: Colour positive print, Comopt, 16mm, 408ft, 1974. Can 42: Colour positive print, Comopt, 16mm, 408ft, 1974. Can 43: Positive optical soundtrack, 16mm, 396ft, 1974. Can 44: Original hand-coloured master negative, 16mm, 396ft, 1974. Can 45: Hand-coloured workprint, 16mm, 391ft, 1974. Can [...]

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2.1 Notes On Research Methods

My research began in earnest during a work placement at the Scottish Film And Television Archive during April and May 2002. Prior to this, in November 2002, I had been to the British Artist’s Film & Video Collection (BAFVC) at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design to go through their Margaret Tait files. [...]

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1.5 Garden Pieces

Tait’s last effort to include hand-painted or drawn elements was a twelve minute film entitled Garden Pieces (1998). There, she adapts the technique of drawing on the film surface used in Numen of The Boughs. With this film, however, dense solid colours were added during printing to produce a very successful combination of colour shifts [...]

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