BLUE BLACK PERMANENT [DUAL FORMAT]

This haunting and magical film moves between Edinburgh and Orkney as it tells of a woman's attempts to come to terms with her mother's death through her childhood memories. Filled with flashbacks and dream sequences, it's also a film about islander's relationships with the ever-present sea.

Margaret Tait's only feature-length film, from her own screenplay, was produced by the BFI in 1992 and was the first Scottish feature film directed by a woman. Now newly remastered in 2K and available on DVD and Blu-ray for the very first time.

Special Features:

• Presented in High Definition and Standard Definition
• A Portrait of Ga (1953, 5 mins): Margaret Tait's hypnotic and deeply personal short documentary about her mother
• The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo (1955, 7 mins): Tait's entrancing interpretation of Gerard Manley Hopkins poem
• Rose Street (1956, 15 mins):Tait's film about the Edinburgh street that runs parallel to Prince's Street
• Margaret Tait: Film Maker (1983, 34 mins): the director talks to video artist Tamara Krikorian in this portrait directed by Margaret Williams
• Film Poems Panel Discussion (2018, 31 mins): Curator Peter Todd examines Tait's work with Lucy Reynolds, So Mayer and Anna Coatman in an onstage discussion filmed at the BFI Southbank
• **FIRST PRESSING ONLY** Fully illustrated booklet with new writing by So Mayer, Peter Todd, Gerda Stevenson and Sarah Neely and full film credits

UK | 1992 | colour | 86 minutes | English language, with optional hard-of-hearing subtitles | original aspect ratio 1.66:1 | BD50: 1080p, 24fps, PCM 2.0 stereo (48kHz/24-bit) | DVD9: PAL, 25fps, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo audio (320kbps)