Movies: Rachel Maclean
- 2017
Billy Connolly: Portrait of a Lifetime (2017)
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Celebrating Billy Connolly's 75th birthday and 50 years in the business, three Scottish artists - John Byrne, Jack Vettriano and Rachel MacLean - each create a new portrait of the Big Yin. As he sits with each artist, Billy talks about his remarkable...
- 2014
The Weepers (2014)
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'The Weepers' is a 30-minute short film that playfully explores Scotland's relationship with the Gothic horror genre. Drawing on a variety of cultural reference points, including Scottish myth, haunted house movies and Doctor Johnson’s trip to the Heb...
- 2024
DUCK (2024)
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A world premiere, DUCK is a classic spy thriller turned on its head. With an all-star cast including a deep-fake Sean Connery and a deep-fake Marilyn Monroe (all played by Maclean), DUCK deconstructs this well-loved genre into something that is at on...
- 2018
Make Me Up (2018)
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Siri wakes to find herself trapped inside a brutalist candy-coloured dreamhouse. 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, ...
- 2014
Eyes To Me (2014)
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Sophie goes on a killing spree in a candy-coloured world....
- 2017
Spite Your Face (2017)
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Simultaneously sumptuous and gorgeous, garish and grim, this is a re-working of Pinocchio for the neo-liberal era. Rachel Maclean’s dark fairytale, which represented Scotland at the Venice Biennale 2017, depicts a brash and baroque binary world of po...
- 2013
Germs (2013)
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In Germs, female stereotypes, pseudoscience and promised happiness clash with violent consequences....
- 2019
Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art (2019)
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Jim Moir (aka Vic Reeves) explores Video Art, revealing how different generations ‘hacked’ the tools of television to pioneer new ways of creating art that can be beautiful, bewildering and wildly experimental....
- 2015
Feed Me (2015)
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Feed Me is a larger than life fairy tale, part TV talent show, part thriller, video game in which Maclean plays all the parts...
- 2016
Again and Again and Again (2016)
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A supersaturated satire with a look into the land of data-addicted monk-like figures and dance-crazed rabbits....
- 2016
It's What's Inside That Counts (2016)
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Parodies social media, advertising, children’s television programmes and fairy tales, subjects that appear frequently in Maclean’s work. The film borrows techniques global corporations use to sell well-being, youth and happiness by bombarding us with...
- 2021
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Rachel Maclean’s bright, emoji-feminist fairy tale-style touches a new darkness in her first completely animated short....
- 2012
The Lion and the Unicorn (2012)
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“The Lion and The Unicorn” is a short film inspired by the heraldic symbols found on the Royal Coat of Arms of The United Kingdom, the lion (representing England) and the unicorn (representing Scotland). The piece uses representations of both allianc...
- 2019
Dr Cute (2019)
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Dr Cute is a video lecture from an off-brand Care Bear Professor of Sweet and Sinister Studies. A rational dissertation on the nature of cuteness is quickly unhinged by the intense emotional responses the subject elicits, begging the question: what h...
- 2019
I’m Terribly Sorry (2019)
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I’m Terribly Sorry, a VR work by the artist, will be screened in the backroom and is the artist’s first piece in this medium. Similarly set in a dystopian urban British landscape of manic tourism, I’m Terribly Sorry reflects the desire for constant d...
- 2024
DUCK (installation) (2024)
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An installation centred around Rachel Maclean's newest video work, DUCK, framed in a highly synthetic environment with walls of a particularly familiar green colour....
- 2013
Over The Rainbow (2013)
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Inspired by the Technicolor utopias of children's television, Over The Rainbow invites the viewer into a shape-shifting world inhabited by cuddly monsters, faceless clones and gruesome pop divas. Shot entirely using green-screen the film presents a s...
- 2019
Native Animals (2019)
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A multi-character, 8-channel film sits in the centre of the exhibition. Each character, from a porcine union-jack doting politician to a phone-addicted white cat, stand in as an archetype in the UK’s political landscape as it considers its exit from ...
- 2007
Hit Me Baby (2007)
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With Britney Spears in the news again with her new memoir, we jump back in time to the days of her infamous head-shaving shenanigans. Hit Me Baby is the earliest of Maclean's work included in either programme, but it already shows an interest in diss...