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Blue Black Permanent: Directed by Margaret Tait. With Celia Imrie, Jack Shepherd, Gerda Stevenson, James Fleet. Barbara Thorburn wiles away the hours with memories of Greta, her mother, the poet.
Waves Are What They Are: A Dialogue about Margaret Tait’s "Blue Black Permanent" Two critics discuss the mysteries of nature, time, and death in the only feature film made by the Scottish poet and filmmaker Margaret Tait.
"Blue Black Permanent" is a poignant and poetic film that tells the story of three generations of women in a remote Scottish island community. The film explores the complexities of their relationships, as they navigate the challenges of family, identity, and memory.
Blue Black Permanent stars Celia Imrie as Barbara, an Edinburgh-based photographer still trying to come to terms with the death of her mother, poet Greta Thorburn. Flashbacks to her childhood chart what happened in the lead-up to the tragedy that claimed Greta’s life, revealing her history on Orkney.
Discover the best of the city, first. A first feature from veteran avant-garde film-maker Tait, a septuagenarian Orcadian. A work of extraordinary emotion, the film takes the form of a...
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A generational portrait of daughters, Blue Black Permanent is built on the same careful, attentive framing as Tait’s shorts. The single, static, shot comes in interludes between narrative sequences, often analytically introducing a space through choice objects.
