Archaeologist Olivier Weller and his team decided to conduct a dig at one of the locations where Jacques Demy shot several scenes from his film Donkeyskin (Peau d’Âne) : the cabin where Catherine Deneuve hides out, the clearing where Delphine Seyrig welcomes her goddaughter… Sets and props are long gone but pearl-beads, nails, sequins and other traces are revealed at the first tentative scrapings of the surface. Following that survey, Skin Deep Fairytale tries to approach the magic of film-maker Jacques Demy’s work, the charm of Charles Perrault’s text, the tale’s power of fascination, whose origins go back to oral tradition.
Are we researching the story, or is it researching us? The quest of our film archaeologist goes much farther and deeper that he would have imagined himself.
English version available.
Liste Technique
Film director : Pierre Oscar Lévy
From an original idea : Olivier Weller
Photography : Jean-Jacques Bouhon – AFC
Editing : Isabelle Martin
Sound : Xavier Griette
Music : Antoine Duhamel © Sidomusic B. Liechti & Cie
Production : Look at Sciences
Producer : Vincent Gaullier
Coproduction : Universcience, Ciné Tamaris, Laboratoire Trajectoires (CNRS – Université Paris 1) et Vidéo de Poche
Participation : CNC – Fonds Nouveaux Médias – Amcsti
Région Ile-de-France; Investissements d’Avenir
Distribution : Shellac
Awards
Prix du meilleur film pour la recherche créative, Festival International du Film d’Archéologie Icronos, Bordeaux 2018
Prix du public, Festival du film d’Archéologie, Clermont-Ferrand 2017
Mention spéciale du jury, Festival international du film d’archéologie, Rovereto (Italie) 2017