Rachel Maclean
Rachel MACLEAN (1987, Scotland) is a multimedia artist who has exhibited internationally. She studied Painting and Drawing at Edinburgh College of Art. Maclean has had major contemporary art commissions and solo presentations in Dublin, London and San Antonio. In 2017, she was asked to represent Scotland at the 57th Venice Biennale with her short film commission Spite Your Face. Maclean often appears as an actress in her own films, playing the figurehead in Make Me Up (2018), which had its European premiere in Rotterdam. In 2024, IFFR has a Focus program dedicated to her work.
Filmography
The Phantom Band: Everybody Knows It’s True (2011, short), The Lion and the Unicorn (2012, short), Germs (2013, short), Over the Rainbow (2013, short), The Weepers (2014, short), Please, Sir… (2014, short), Feed Me (2015), Eyes 2 Me (2015, short), It’s What’s Inside That Counts (2016, short), Spite Your Face (2017, short), Make Me Up (2018), I’m Terribly Sorry (2018, VR), Dr Cute (2019, short), Mimi (2021, short), DUCK (2023, short & instal)
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Rachel Maclean op IFFR
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DUCK
Rachel Maclean | 16' | United Kingdom | World premiere
A deep-fake remake of a classic spy thriller. Whodunnit? Depends how you look at it! -
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Rachel Maclean | 12' | United Kingdom | Dutch Premiere
An animation about dualities: young and old, cute and grotesque, sweet and violent, up and down. -
The Lion and The Unicorn
Rachel Maclean | 12' | United Kingdom | Dutch Premiere
The Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom comes to life to re-open an age-old feud. -
Hit Me Baby
Rachel Maclean | 6' | United Kingdom | European premiere
A look back at the mid-aughts via one of the stars that defined the era. -
Germs
Rachel Maclean | 3' | United Kingdom | Dutch Premiere
Clean home, clean skin, clean body: it all sounds great, just don’t scrub too hard! -
Feed Me
Rachel Maclean | 60' | United Kingdom | Dutch Premiere
A quest for all things cute turns dark when power, sex, children and fame intermingle. -
Dr Cute
Rachel Maclean | 5' | United Kingdom | Dutch Premiere
Dr Cute will explain the nature of cuteness, if she can resist succumbing to it. -
Over The Rainbow
Rachel Maclean | 42' | United Kingdom | Dutch Premiere
A film with all the colours of rainbows and all the pulp of popular culture. -
DUCK (installation)
Rachel Maclean | 16' | United Kingdom | World premiere
Experience Rachel Maclean’s newest work, DUCK, in the installation context she is best known for. -
I’m Terribly Sorry
Rachel Maclean | 6' | United Kingdom | Dutch Premiere
An interactive stroll through an imagined dark future for the urban UK. A post-post-post-Brexit shooter.