Peaches Goes Bananas

Marie Losier / France, Belgium / 2024 / Czech Premiere / 73 min.

synopsis

Merrill Nisker, the pioneering feminist queer icon and musician known as Peaches, is the proud star of this intimate documentary. We follow her concerts, her relationship with her sister Suri, and her creative process on and off stage. Peaches has created a confrontational poetics over the last quarter century, at times taking performance to the edge of what is possible. What does feminism, gender, electronic music and love mean to us? The film is the work of Marie Losier, who has closely followed the transgressive practice of a radical pop figure since The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye.

biography

Marie Losier has been filming and living in New York for 23 years. Her feature debut, The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye (presented by KVIFF), is a portrait of Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and his partner Lady Jaye. Cassandro the Exotico! is a portrait of the Mexican wrestler (2018), and Felix in Wonderland (2020) is a film about musician and conceptual artist Felix Kubin.