Film Programmes (selected)
Pier Arts Centre, Stromness
11 September 2022
A 16mm film programme featuring films by Margaret Tait alongside the work of friends, collaborators and artists and filmmakers inspired by her. Curated by Kari Adams and Sarah Neely - for series of events accompanying the tour of Luke Fowler's film, Being in a Place: A Portrait of Margaret Tait (supported by Screen Scotland)
Margaret Tait – Portraiture and Film
Void Gallery, Derry
11 September 2022
‘Personae: Margaret Tait – Portraiture and Film’, talk + curated screening to coincide with Luke Fowler’s exhibition, Being in a Place: A Portrait of Margaret Tait. Films by Luke Fowler, Peter Todd, Ute Aurand, Margaret Tait.
Margaret Tait: Origins and Influences
Phoenix Cinema, Kirkwall
14 July 2022
A special screening of work by Tait shown alongside a selection of films by other filmmakers, friends and collaborators. In collaboration with LUX Scotland, Phoenix Cinema, Kirkwall, 14 July. Supported by Screen Scotland and MT100.
‘there and then and never again’: Margaret Tait 100 Commissions
Premiere, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
18/19 August, 2019
Distributed by LUX
Beginning with one of Tait’s earliest films and ending with one of her last, this programme includes new film commissions by director and critic Mark Cousins; artist, musician and filmmaker Luke Fowler; artist Alexander Storey Gordon; artist and filmmaker Matt Hulse; artist Wendy Kirkup and composer Richy Carey; director Morag Mckinnon; author Ali Smith and filmmaker Sarah Wood; artist Catherine Street; curator and artist Peter Todd, and curator and filmmaker Ute Aurand. The new works have been commissioned as part of the Margaret Tait 100, a year-long centenary celebration that included screenings, exhibitions, workshops, readings and new publishing. In collaboration with LUX Scotland, MT100, with support from Screen Scotland.
Il Cinema Ritrovato, Bologna
25 June- 1 July 2019
Programme of 16mm films co-curated with Mariann Lewinsky and Karl Wratschko (as part of their Small Gauge festival strand), including films by Maria Lassnig, Martha Colburn and Margaret Tait
Where I Am Is Here: Margaret Tait at 100
Premiere, Uppsala Short Film Festival
27-28 October 2018
Distributed by LUX
Touring programme of films by Margaret Tait, co-curated for Margaret Tait's centenary, with Matt Lloyd (Glasgow Short Film Festival), now distributed by LUX
Herland: Subjects and Sequences, 100 years of Margaret Tait
21 Sept 2018
Glasgow Women’s Library
An evening celebration of music, film and poetry to mark the centenary of Margaret Tait. Curated by Sarah Neely, hosted by Gerda Stevenson with performances from Laura Edbrook & Sarah Forrest, MacGillivray, Alison Miller, Alberta Whittle (Tait Award Winner 2018), and a new edit of the GWL documentary Margaret Tait. Film Poet by Marissa Keating.
31 Jan 2014
Poetic Research Bureau, Los Angeles California, January 31, 2014
Film screening to coincide with Anne Colvin's Shape of a Pocket exhibition at Mills College, Oakland
Margaret Tait - Films for Children
12 Feb 2012
Glasgow Short Film Festival
A programme of films with talk by artist filmmaker, Peter Todd
Margaret Tait’s Edinburgh Shorts
Edinburgh International Film Festival
26 June 2011
A programme of newly discovered films by Margaret Tait, Edinburgh Film House, 12.45 pm and 8pm.
Citing Cinema in Artists’ Films
Glasgow Film Theatre (as part of Glasgow International)
1 April 2010
Screening programme co-curated with Dr. Maeve Connolly and Prof. Sarah Smith,
featuring works by Martin Arnold, George Barber, Anita di Bianco, David Blandy, Jesse Jones, Lewis Klahr and Ivan Zulueta.