Glasgow Film Festival Place of Work Margaret Tait Revisited

In this celebratory event we explore pioneering Orcadian filmmaker Margaret Tait’s legacy and influence on experimental filmmaking, focusing in particular on the work of Scottish-based artists Stina Wirfelt and Oliver Mezger.

Wirfelt’s new short film Before Words (2013, 12m) brings Tait’s unrealised script Video Poems for the ’90s vividly to life, while in Air Sgàth – For the Sake of Margaret Tait (2013, 40m) Mezger revisits and re-engages with the people and places that Tait captured nearly fifty years ago in her 1966 film Caora Mor: The Big Sheep. A 16mm screening of Tait’s ‘film-poem’ Place of Work (1976, 31m) and a discussion led by Tait expert Dr Sarah Neely complete the evening.

Crossing the Line, 1h50m approx, N/C 8+, thanks to LUX, Stina Wirfelt, Oliver Mezger and Alex Pirie.