Seven Plus Seven Plus Me: The Up Series Under Lockdown
In the wake of Michael Apted's passing, Claire Marie Healy revisits the director's most lasting monument: the sprawling, poetic Up series.
Claire Marie Healy is a London-born and based writer and editor. She was previously Editor of Dazed & Confused, and is currently a Contributing Editor for AnOther, where she writes a column called Girlhood Studies. Elsewhere, her journalism and essays around film, photography, fashion and the internet have appeared in The Guardian, Port, SSENSE, Vestoj Journal, Elephant, and others. She holds MAs in English Literature and Digital Media Theory from the University of Cambridge and Goldsmiths respectively.
In the wake of Michael Apted's passing, Claire Marie Healy revisits the director's most lasting monument: the sprawling, poetic Up series.