Beauty is a beast.
Inspired by Coralie Fargeat’s visceral body-horror film The Substance, this project explores themes of perfectionism, addiction, and the grotesque pursuit of control. I created an artist book and motion media piece that deconstruct the film’s narrative through a feminist lens, using experimental typography, layered textures, and distorted imagery to echo the psychological unraveling of the protagonist. The work functions as both artifact and critique—an immersive translation of the film’s moral decay into visual form.
The accompanying motion piece extends the visual language of The Substance artist book into a cinematic space, using After Effects to explore pacing, texture, and typographic tension. Layered compositions echo the book’s interplay of pink vellum, chrome, and transparency, with shifting opacities and masked type revealing and concealing words in rhythm with the narrative. The result is an immersive translation of the printed piece into time-based media, where typography becomes both the medium and the message.
