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BBC Broadcast of Make Me Up

30 Oct 2018

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. After it's broadcast it can be viewed on BBC iPlayer here. Enjoy!

Make Me Up, 14-18 NOW & Represent

21 Sep 2018

"2018 is an exciting moment for women’s rights. 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. 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. 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

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. Rachel's new work also forms part of Represent, a series of artworks inspired by the Representation of the People Act 1918. 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). Check out this great video featuring all three artists here. Represent is supported by Jerwood Charitable Foundation.

www.1418now.org.uk

Make Me Up Australian Premiere

12 Sep 2018

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.

Adelaide Film Festival is Australia’s premier film event, launching new films, art and interactive projects to both national and international audiences. We're thrilled to be able to share Make Me Up with Australian audiences - visit www.adelaidefilmfestival.org to book tickets.

Rachel Maclean on 'Make Me Up'

28 Aug 2018

Make Me Up is the first long film I’ve made working with actors on screen, which has been fantastic. I am so privileged to have worked with such an amazingly talented cast! I am also so excited to have had the opportunity to make a film for BBC4 and work with the BBC archive. So many of my influences and inspiration come from television and amazing commissions on BBC. 

The film samples dialogue from Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation, which was fascinating to revisit. I grew up watching seminal BBC Arts documentaries including Civilisation, as well as Shock of The New and Ways of Seeing, which were hugely influential in my desire to become an artist. The process of making the film has allowed me personally to reinvestigate my relationship to Kenneth Clark’s reading of art history and in particular how strikingly present women are in images and sculptures, yet how absent they are as voices or agents in art production.

I’m so thrilled that Make Me Up will receive its world premiere at the London Film Festival and look forward to traveling with the film and talking to audiences as we screen it across the country.

Rachel Maclean, August 2018