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Margaret Tait, Blue Black Permanent at GFF17

16 February 2017
6–8pm

CCA Cinema
Glasgow
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Margaret Tait, Blue Black Permanent, 1992. Courtesy of the artist and BFI.

In conjunction with the screening of her 2016 Margaret Tait Award film, artist Kate Davis will present a screening of Margaret Tait’s Blue Black Permanent (1992), a film that informed her new work. Tait’s only feature film, Blue Black Permanent sits as the Orcadian film-poet’s only attempt to move from her celebrated abstract and allusive shorter works into longer narratives. Employing a complex Russian Doll’ narrative, the film spans three generations of an Orcadian family. As the protagonist Barbara attempts to understand her past, the film flashes back to her mother Greta, and grandmother Mary. The film demonstrates Tait’s interest in natural cycles and can be seen to have autobiographical elements through the central character’s interest in poetry and film. Also selected by Kate Davis, Margaret Raspés Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow – Let Them Swing (1974) will screen as a short before the main feature.

This screening is part of GFT’s Crossing the Line strand, presented by Glasgow Film Festival and LUX Scotland.