Margaret Tait

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Other
Birthday
Nov 11, 1918 (106 years old)
Death date
Apr 16, 1999

Margaret Tait

Known For

Being in a Place: A Portrait of Margaret Tait
1h 2m
Movie 2024

Being in a Place: A Portrait of Margaret Tait

Drawing on a wealth of unseen archival material and unpublished notebooks, the film weaves a complex and personal portrait of Margaret’s life, from the perspective of a fellow artist sensitive to the potential Margaret envisaged for film as a poetic medium.

Biography

Margaret Caroline Tait was a Scottish film maker and poet. 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).