Peaches Goes Bananas

Seit mehr als 20 Jahren ist die Kanadierin Merrill Nisker, besser bekannt als Peaches, mit ihrer Mischung aus elektronischer Tanzmusik und einer sich Genderfragen widmenden Performancekunst ein internationaler Star. Losier kommt der Künstlerin in diesem intimen Dokumentarporträt ausgesprochen nahe: Es geht um energiegeladene Auftritte und das Älterwerden, um die enge Beziehung Merrills zu ihrer verstorbenen Schwester Suri, oder auch um die Mitwirkung Peaches‘ an einer Monteverdi-Oper. Und nicht zuletzt klärt sich, welchen Vorteil es hat, wenn man früher Songs zur Unterhaltung von Kindergartenkids gesungen hat: „They are like punk audiences.“ (Lars Penning)

In Anwesenheit von Carole Chassaing (Produzentin) und Clément Chassaing (Produzent).

For 17 years, Marie Losier filmed the life and work of Merrill Beth Nisker, better known as artist, musician and queer feminist icon Peaches. Captured with a Bolex in Losier’s inimitable style, joyful, fragmented and emotional in a way that delivers a rush to body and soul, this stretch of time is tied into a magnificent knot of energy and movement in PEACHES GOES BANANAS. Losier seems to have found yet another subject who matches her own velocity, an artist who is always mutating, changing and experimenting with sound, texture, dance and objects, as well as her many friends. We see Peaches don vagina hats and tit slippers, slip into costumes of metal and flesh suits. We see her fly and jump, sing alone and with her audience, hug and make out. She makes albums, live performances and opera (à la Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht). We witness her beginnings at the YMCA, where she developed her own system of teaching children about music and imagination, and we see her now, close to her sixties, thinking about life, grief and the menopause, the transformations of the body and the ones in her songs. PEACHES GOES BANANAS is the explosively beautiful portrait of an artist connected to the present at every single second. (Lucía Salas)

In the presence of Carole Chassaing (producer) and Clément Chassaing (producer).

Marie Losier (Auswahl): LUNCH BREAK ON THE XEROX MACHINE (2003, K), EAT YOUR MAKEUP! (2005, K), THE BALLAD OF GENESIS AND LADY JAYE (2011), BIM, BAM, BOOM, LAS LUCHAS MORENAS! (2014, K), L’OISEAU DE LA NUIT (2015, K), CASSANDRO, THE EXOTICO! (2018), FELIX IN WONDERLAND! (2019)