Make it New John

Make it new John tells the story of the DeLorean car its creator John DeLorean and the workers of the Belfastbased car plant who built it The film deftly contrasts the DeLorean dream with its spectacular downfall during a critical period in Northern Irelands history and the canonisation of the car the DMC12 as a symbol of the American myth of mobility As with the earlier works such as Bernadette 2008 and Falls Burns Malone Fiddles 2003 in Make it New John Campbell fuses a documentary aesthetic with fictive moments using existing archive news and documentary footage from the 1980s as well as new 16mm footage which imagines conversations between DeLorean factory workers Campbell questions the documentary genre and reflects here on broader existential themes and narrative drives