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Make me up

Make Me up
written and directed by Rachel Maclean
fiction / comedy / sci-fi / drama
Genre
2018
Year
UK
Country
84 min
Duration
English
Language
£ 505 000
Budget
Synopsis

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. She tackles these contradictions head-on and never balks at pushing boundaries.

This darkly-comic film takes a satirical look at the contradictory pressures faced by women today. 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.

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, 24/7. 

Presiding over the group is an authoritarian diva who speaks entirely with the voice of Kenneth Clark from the 1960s BBC series Civilisation. 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.

Cast
Rachel Maclean Figurehead
Christina Gordon Siri
Colette Tchantcho Alexa
Kirsty Strain Cortanna
Alice Zhang Erica
Jenny Douglas Sophia
Sanaa Zaheed Tay
Cressentia Masuku Dewey
Moyo Akandé Farrah
Catriona McFarlane Maria
Kayleigh Andrews Harmony
Stewart Preston Tweed Man
Crew
Designer, Editor Rachel Maclean
Cinematographer David Liddell
Director of Photography David Liddell
Music Scott Twynholm
Art Director Ayden Millar
VFX Supervisor Jason Hillier
Line Producer Carolynne Sinclair Kidd
Executive Producers Sud Basu, Mark Bell, Clara Glynn, David Harron, Mark Thomas, Jenny Waldman
Producers John Archer, Angus Farqhuar
production by Hopscotch Films with NVA
Tags
  • dystopia
  • feminism
  • robots
  • Big brother
  • Pin Up
  • plastic surgery
  • burlesque
  • riot
  • Barbie
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