Fashion in Film Festival: Grounded: Donkey Skin (Peau d’Âne) + Intro
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Sun 1 Jun
15:00 Book Now QA S1
Spanning the late 19th century to present day, GROUNDED examines fashion’s role as simultaneously a barrier and a connecting tissue between humans and the natural world. With over 80 films from around the world, including rare screenings and UK premieres, the season offers a decentred perspective on themes such as production, disposal, hybridity, migration, social justice, and environmental harm. It also presents diverse narratives addressing ecological and geopolitical concerns while exploring imaginative spaces of poetry, comedy, beauty, joy, horror, and transgression.
The programme is co-curated by Marketa Uhlirova and Dal Chodha, with guest curators. It is possible with the support of the BFI, awarding funds from the National Lottery. Fashion in Film Festival is based at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London.
website: www.fashioninfilm.com
DONKEY SKIN (Peau d’Âne)
France, 1970. English subtitles.
Costume design by Gitt Magrini.
Introduction by filmmaker Ray Sims
Jacques Demy’s DONKEY SKIN adapts Charles Perrault’s eponymous fairy tale into a surrealist musical that interrogates taboos, agency and cultural mythmaking. Like the director’s earlier film The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, the film’s candy colours belie its subversive examinations of sex and class, with a young woman caught at the centre.
A young princess (played by Catherine Deneuve) is dressed in magnificently gaudy gowns. Yet in a bid to escape her father’s marriage proposal, she dons a magical donkey skin before running away from her kingdom. She is enrobed by the shame and degradation of her circumstances – but there is freedom to be found at the edge of her hybrid existence.
The film offers a fantastical slant on the transformative effects of what we wear, the complexities of fur, and how our proximity to animality can liberate us from the bounds of conventional fashions.
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Fashion in Film Festival: Grounded: Donkey Skin (Peau d’Âne) + Intro
- Runtime: 89 minutes
- Director: Jacques Demy
- Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Marais, Jacques Perrin
- Country: France
- Year: 1970
- Rating: (PG)
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Sun 1 Jun
15:00 Book Now QA S1
