Raw Beauty

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Through a series of living tableaux, 'Raw Beauty' explores the transformation of female beauty and questions the ways in which beauty is represented through a hypnotic transition: from canvas to skin, from skin to algorithm, questioning how beauty is created, transformed, and projected today.

An aesthetic journey between matter and code. Through a series of living tableaux, 'Raw Beauty' explores the transformation of female beauty and questions the ways in which beauty is represented through a hypnotic transition: from canvas to skin, from skin to algorithm, questioning how beauty is created,transformed, and projected today. Bodies and faces oscillate between flesh and oil, between life and representation, where flesh meets the sacred. Through the portrait of three muses, the camera ventures onto bare, glistening skin, filmed likelandscapes in classical paintings. In this chiaroscuro, the boundary becomes blurred: the grain of the skin becomes the texture of oil, and theface a pictorial surface in motion. Then, a metamorphosis takes place. Organic flesh shifts into the digital realm. These figures mutate into amore spectral and digital existence. Before our eyes, faces mutate into reconstructed surfaces, giving rise to a hybrid and synthetic beauty. Thefilm thus becomes a place of fluid circulation where beauty is transformed, from skin to data. A work that questions the way our gaze sculpts the feminine, between artistic heritage and algorithmicrevolution: what remains of life in the mirror of our technologies?

CREDITS

A Film by Maud Rallière @muda_mad

DOP Louise Gholam @louise_gholam

Camera Assistant Arthur Jacquet Usureau

Gaffer Alouane Saïd Ruspoli @alouane_s_r

Casting Director Sept Casting — Emilie Mériot & Marion @sept_casting

Model Joséphine — City Models @josephine_dau_13012

Anna Dolisi — Next Management @annadolisi

Reina — The Claw Models @reina_ttou

Makeup Artist Hugo Villard — Calliste Agency @hugo_villard

Hair Stylist Gwen Joncour @gwenjoncour

Thank you to Nathalie Cordial — Studio Zorse @studio_zorse

& Lou Chretien