An intimate portrait of Tait’s mother, the film was made in Orkney shortly after Tait returned from studying film at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. Like the other film portraits Tait would go on to make, the film’s focus is on capturing the more elusive qualities of its subject. The camera lingers on fragmentary details: her mother’s hands waving in time to the music, fingers unwrapping a boiled sweet, the sun-lit creases of her eyes as she smiles to camera.

Sarah Neely