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Dye: She’s Bad Outlandish Parisians Dent de Cuir cut up a cautionary tale of seduction“It is about a girl, a bad one, who’s too sexy for human beings,” says wunderkind French producer Juan de Guillebon, AKA Dye, of his latest music video for, “She’s Bad,” a track featuring the vocal stylings of west-coast rap legend Egyptian Lover. The short sees temptress Aude Auffret saunter round a tiki bar setting, her face replaced with library footage cuttings of wildlife and fizzing volcanic springs, Altered States-style. “We were looking at John Stezaker’s layered, peel-away collages, and referenced a book of tattoos and how they sit on the body,” say filmmaking duo Jean-Philippe Chartrand and Benjamin Mege, who have created color-splashed animated works for Modeselektor and compatriot beat-freak Sebastian under their moniker Dent de Cuir. The last video made for Dye—Jérémie Périn’s extremely NSFW sex-and-gore cartoon short for the 2011 release “Fantasy”—has racked up over 48-million hits on YouTube so far. “It was a difficult thing to follow up,” says Guillebon. “I hope this one’s crazy enough for people.”Dye’s second album Cocktail Citronis is out now on Tigersushi.

Define Beauty: Am I Ugly? Highlighting the distorted nature of contouring culture

For her contribution to the latest series of Define Beauty, London-based director Marie Schuller has turned to the dark depths of the web, holding up a mirror to strange cultural occurrences that have become the everyday. In a new film, Am I Ugly?, the filmmaker highlights the pressure placed on young girls and women to meet an unrealistic and unvaried standard of beauty.

“Schuller highlights the pressure placed on young women to meet an unrealistic and unvaried standard of beauty” In a world littered with images of everything from a contoured Kim Kardashian to vlogger tutorials teaching you how to reshape your face, it begs the question: are these body-altering processes warping our ideals of how a woman should look? Or is the contouring trend a move towards further agency, as its roots in the drag scene might suggest?

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