
Directing
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Rachel Maclean
Directing
Biography
Rachel Maclean is a multi-media artist born in 1987 in Edinburgh. Using film and photography, she creates outlandish characters and fantasy worlds which she uses to delve into politics, society and identity. Wearing colourful costumes and make-up, Maclean takes on every role in her films herself. She uses computer technology to generate her locations, and borrows audio from television and cinema to construct narratives with a comedic touch. Maclean lives and works in Glasgow.
Feature Films (12)

Feed Me is a larger than life fairy tale, part TV talent show, part thriller, video game in which Maclean plays all the parts
Feed Me

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 life and career which has taken him from musician and pioneering stand-up to Hollywood star and national treasure.
Billy Connolly: Portrait of a Lifetime

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 poverty and riches where the prospect of easy wealth tempts even good boys like Pic into bad ways. But if everyone believes the lie, what’s the problem?
Spite Your Face

In Germs, female stereotypes, pseudoscience and promised happiness clash with violent consequences.
Germs

In Germs, female stereotypes, pseudoscience and promised happiness clash with violent consequences.
Germs

A supersaturated satire with a look into the land of data-addicted monk-like figures and dance-crazed rabbits.
Again and Again and Again

A young woman awakens in a surveillance-controlled dreamhouse where an authoritarian host forces women into degrading competitions, prompting her and a fellow inmate to defy the rules and uncover the sinister truth behind their captivity.
Make Me Up

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 synthetic environment, part toy model, part computer generated landscape, which explores a dark, comedic parody of the Faustian tale, video game and horror movie genres.
Over The Rainbow

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.
Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art

“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 alliance and opposition to explore national identity within the context of the 2014 referendum on Scottish independence.
The Lion and the Unicorn

Sean Connery's descent into hell after witnessing Marilyn Monroe's return from the dead...
Duck
Television & Series (1)

Artist in Residence follows some of the UK's leading artists who spend time in various locations, producing new work in response to what they find.

