Tag: Mirror Mirror

Fairy Tales: Behind-the-seams of the costumes for the film ‘Mirror Mirror’

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   17 Apr 2024

QAGOMA conservator Michael Marendy gives us an insight into Eiko Ishioka‘s exquisitely designed costumes made for the film Mirror Mirror (2012). The ‘Cream wedding dress’ costume (illustrated) worn by Julia Roberts as ‘Queen Clementianna’ is made from 70 metres of Duchess Silk Satin creating a multitude of overlapping petals and vine tendrils from bodice to…

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Fairy Tales: Unmissable films in February

Posted by Sophie Hopmeier   ●   18 Feb 2024

In February, the Fairy Tales Cinema program explores the changing face of fairy tales and the ways they blend with other storytelling traditions to reflect particular moments in time. The fairy tale theorist and historian Jack Zipes has used the concept of the ‘meme’ to think about this ever-shifting continuity of storytelling, and the importance…

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Fairy Tales: Classic tales retold

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   18 Dec 2023

Secular, fluid and simple in form, classic fairy tales involve characters defined by their social roles (woodcutter, stepmother, queen) or appearance (‘Little Red Riding Hood’, ‘Snow White’, ‘Beauty, the Beast’). These foundations provide a scaffold for storytellers to adapt the tales for their own audiences. The term ‘fairy tale’ comes from the French phrase conte…

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