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We're very excited to announce that Make Me Up will receive its Southern Hemisphere premiere at the Adelaide Film Festival on Sunday 14 October.Īdelaide Film Festival is Australia’s premier film event, launching new films, art and interactive projects to both national and international audiences. Represent is supported by Jerwood Charitable Foundation. Check out this great video featuring all three artists here. Rachel is one of three artists that have been selected for Represent alongside Debris Stevenson (working with Royal Court) and Selina Thompson (working with Arnolfini).

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Rachel's new work also forms part of Represent, a series of artworks inspired by the Representation of the People Act 1918. Make Me Up was co-commissioned by 14-18 NOW, a major cultural programme taking place across the United Kingdom to mark the centenary of the First World War.

Make Me Up is an exploration of both the achievements and the complications of contemporary feminism, and sets out a discussion of how women’s bodies, voices and minds contend with a world that all too often prefers you to be slim, silent and subservient.' Rachel Maclean Simultaneously however, there has been a visible backlash against these developments, as well as a complicated entanglement of radical politics into consumerism, where feminism risks becoming a market, an image you buy into rather than a political force. It’s 100 years since women got the vote and with the rise of the #MeToo movement and similar activism it seems that feminism is back with a powerful new lease of life. '2018 is an exciting moment for women’s rights. After it's broadcast it can be viewed on BBC iPlayer here. We're excited to announce that Make Me Up will be broadcast on BBC Four as part of Arena, the channel's multi award-winning arts strand, on Sunday 4 November at 10pm. Zabludowicz Collection: Featuring the exclusive gallery edition and installation of Make Me Up more info * Includes post screening Q+A with Rachel Maclean Leeds, Hyde Park Picture House book tickets North Uist, Taigh Chearsabhagh book ticketsīelfast, Queen’s Film Theatre* book tickets London Film Festival BFi Southbank NFT Studio book ticketsĬardiff, Chapter Arts Centre* book tickets London Film Festival World Premiere - BFi Southbank NFT1* book tickets Make Me Up will be broadcast on BBC 4 in November. Starring Rachel Maclean, Christina Gordon, Colette Dalal TchantchoĮxecutive Producers Sud Basu, Mark Bell, Clara Glynn, David Harron, Mark Thomas, Jenny Waldman Written, Designed, Edited and Directed by Rachel Maclean Make Me Up is part of Represent, a series of works inspired by the Representation of the Peoples Act 1918.

Produced by Hopscotch Films with NVA, Make Me Up is a major commission for the BBC, Creative Scotland and 14-18 NOW: WW1 Centenary Art Commissions, supported by Jerwood Charitable Foundation, the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund, and by the Department of Digital, Culture Media and Sport. Make Me Up will be broadcast on BBC 4 in November 2018 (date tbc). Make Me Up will receive its world premiere in London on 12 October as part of the BFI London Film Festival and will be screened in cinemas and arts centres throughout autumn 2018.

As she forces the women to go head-to-head in a series of demeaning tasks, Siri, with the help of fellow inmate Alexa, starts subverting the rules and soon reveals the sinister truth that underpins their world.

Presiding over the group is an authoritarian diva who speaks entirely with the voice of Kenneth Clark from the 1960s BBC series Civilisation. Despite the cutesy decor, the place is far from benign, and she and her inmates are encouraged to compete for survival while being watched over by surveillance cameras, 24/7. Siri wakes to find herself trapped inside a brutalist candy-coloured dreamhouse. It examines how television and social media can be fun and expressive spaces to explore identity, but simultaneously a gilded prison that encourages women to conform to strict beauty ideals. This darkly-comic film takes a satirical look at the contradictory pressures faced by women today. She tackles these contradictions head-on and never balks at pushing boundaries. In Make Me Up, multimedia artist Rachel Maclean has created a world that is both seductive and dangerous a place where surveillance, violence and submission are a normalised part of daily life.

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