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Join us for a post-screening discussion with filmmaker Luke Fowler, in person.
Drawing on a wealth of unseen archival material, including sound recordings, film rushes, offcuts and unpublished notebooks, Luke Fowler’s new feature film focuses on Margaret Tait, one of Scotland’s most enigmatic filmmakers. The film takes one of Tait’s unrealized scripts for Channel 4 television, Heartlandscape: Visions of Ephemerality and Permanence, as its starting point and considers Tait’s life and work grounded within the landscape of Orkney, Scotland. Tait was not interested in filming the scenery but instead looked at the precise details that constitute a place—the small things that are often overlooked. Exploring the process of filmmaking itself from the perspective of a fellow artist, Being in a Place pays tribute to the strengths in her method, the importance of fragmented bodies of work, and the intrinsic value in failure. (Luke Fowler, 2022, 16mm to digital, 60 minutes).
Preceded by Fowler’s recent short film, No Interior, commissioned by Batalha Centro de Cinema, Portugal. The film records a subjective impression of Porto’s midsummer festivities of São João, a 14th century traditional pagan festival that gives thanks to the sun god for good harvest and involves an ancient courtship ritual of hitting the other with a garlic flower — now replaced with a plastic hammer. (Luke Fowler, 2023, 16mm to digital, 15 minutes)
