RACHEL MACLEAN, Born in 1987 in Edinburgh, lives in Glasgow. She studied Fine Arts at Edinburgh College of Art. Solo and group exhibitions a.o. at Tate Britain 2016; Zabludowicz Collection, London 2014; Collective Gallery, Edinburgh 2013; Trade Gallery, Nottingham 2013. In 2013, she received the Margaret Tait Award at the Glasgow Film Festival. In 2017 she will represent Scotland at the Venice Biennale.
Selected films: Feed Me (2015), The Weepers (2014), Random Acts (2011)
Website Rachel Maclean
IT’S WHAT’S INSIDE THAT COUNTS
(GBR/USA 2016, DIGITAL, VIDEO, 30’, English)
GERMAN PREMIERE
A hefty parody of our digital reality in the typical Maclean Horror-Barbie look, coproduced by Channel 4 and the Tate Gallery. The supermodel-like figurehead of a greed-driven data provider is stalked by the leader of a band of guerrilla hacktivist rats. Their aim is to disrupt and gorge upon the addictive invisi-juice that powers phones and tablets, gnawing on bandwidth cables like sugar cane to suck at the sweet nectar within. Above ground, the citizens are infected with a plaguelike lethargy. It turns them into zombies who stumble around in stained bed clothes looking for ever greater connectivity, totally disconnected from non-virtual reality.
