MAKE ME UP

By Rachel MACLEAN

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Comedy - Completed 2018

Siri wakes to find herself trapped inside a brutalist candy-coloured dreamhouse, where she and her fellow inmates are forced to go head-to-head in a series of demeaning tasks.

Festivals
& Awards

BFI London FF 2018
Special Presentations
Adelaide FF 2018
A Singular Vision
Rotterdam IFFR 2019
Perspectives. Rabbit Hole
IndieLisboa IFF 2019
Mouth of Madness
Moscow IEFF 2019
Closing Night Film
New Horizons IFF 2019
Visual Front
FNC - Montréal 2019
Official Selection
Goteborg IFF 2019
Visionaries
    • Year of production
    • 2018
    • Genres
    • Comedy, Drama
    • Countries
    • UNITED KINGDOM
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Budget
    • 0.6 - 1 M$
    • Duration
    • 84 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Rachel MACLEAN
    • Producer(s)
    • John ARCHER
    • 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.