Margaret Tait: Poetry and Experimental Film

这个研究项目探索了奥卡迪亚电影制作人、艺术家和诗人玛格丽特·泰特的作品。泰特是苏格兰为数不多的女性电影制作人之一。此外，她越来越被认为是实验电影领域的先驱。泰特最初是一名全科医生，在远东的RAMC服务，后来在20世纪60年代在罗马学习电影制作。她的主要作品主要是短小的实验电影，她在1993年拍摄了一部故事片《永恒的蓝黑》。她也是一位有成就的作家，出版了三本诗集和两本短篇小说集，在她庞大的档案馆(位于柯克沃尔)中也有大量未出版的材料。泰特是一位真正的独立电影制作人。她成立了自己的电影公司，并自筹资金制作了大部分作品。她的作品涵盖了一系列令人印象深刻的风格(例如手绘动画、电影诗歌或对她周围环境的观察性肖像)。然而，在她的一生中，泰特的作品一直相对鲜为人知，尽管她的电影在前卫电影界受到拥护，但她的电影在苏格兰电影研究中几乎没有得到足够的重视。例如，邓肯·皮特里关于苏格兰电影的开创性著作只用了一段话来介绍泰特。在过去的六年里，这位研究人员花了大量的时间研究Tait。卡内基大学的两项小额研究拨款使这一点成为可能(两项都是GB 2000应用程序，其中一项目前正在进行中)。对档案材料的初步研究是在2006年进行的，完全得到了卡内基信托基金的一笔小额研究赠款的支持。这项研究产生了一些公共活动、会议论文、三本书的章节和一篇期刊文章。这一研究项目旨在通过与电影制作人工作相关的丰富档案资源，制作一本书长的电影制作人研究报告，以及编辑过的泰特诗歌和各种作品集，重新审视泰特工作的历史疏忽。此外，该项目将确保保存目前由电影制片人丈夫亚历克斯·皮里持有的更多文件和临时文件。这将包括将一些泰特诗歌的录音读物数字化。还将对泰特电影制作的主要支持者进行一些采访。

This research project explores the work of the Orcadian filmmaker, artist and poet, Margaret Tait. Tait stands out as one of the few women filmmakers in Scotland. Furthermore, she is increasingly recognised as a pioneer in the area of experimental film. Originally trained as a GP and serving in the RAMC in the Far East, Tait later studied filmmaking in Rome in the 1960s. Her main body of work consists largely of short experimental films and she made one feature, Blue Black Permanent, in 1993. She was also an accomplished writer, publishing three books of poetry and two collections of short stories and there is also a great deal of unpublished material in her extensive archive (located in Kirkwall).Tait was a truly independent filmmaker. She established her own film company and self-financed most of her productions. Her work stretches across an impressive range of styles (e.g. hand-painted animations, film poetry or observational portraits of her immediate surroundings). Yet throughout her lifetime, Tait's work remained relatively unknown and although championed in avant-garde filmmaking circles, her films are scarcely given adequate attention in studies of Scottish cinema. For instance, Duncan Petrie's seminal book on Scottish Cinema dedicates little more than a paragraph to Tait. In the past six years the researcher has spent a great deal of time researching Tait. Two small research grants from Carnegie have made this possible (both £2000 app., one currently active). The initial research into the archive materials was conducted in 2006 and was wholly supported by a small research grant from the Carnegie Trust. The research resulted in a number of public events, conference papers, three book chapters and a journal article. This research project aims to readdress the historical oversight of Tait's work by engaging with the rich archival resources related to the filmmaker's work, producing a book-length study of the filmmaker and an edited collection of Tait's poetry and various writings. Furthermore, the project will ensure the preservation of additional papers and ephemera currently held by the filmmakers husband, Alex Pirie. This will include the digitization of a number of recorded readings of Tait's poetry. A number of interviews with key supporters of Tait's filmmaking will also be conducted.