Best Friend Forever has dropped the trailer for Marie Losier’s documentary feature “Peaches Goes Bananas.” The feature will have its world premiere at the Venice Days sidebar running alongside the film festival.
The documentary portrays Merrill Nisker — the trailblazing feminist queer icon, musician and producer known as Peaches — off and on stage. It showcases Peaches’ concerts, her bond with her sister Suri and her creative process.
The movie also results from the friendship bond that Losier has forged with Peaches over the years. “There was a special feeling between Marie and I from the moment we met — a comfort, a joy, a creative force, a knowing,” said Peaches in a statement. “Marie’s style is all her own and I love her for that. There are such sacred moments captured on film that I will always cherish, especially since the passing of my sister and my father,” she continued.
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Losier, meanwhile, said Peaches was also an inspiration because “the way she embodies her art and lives her life is very comfortable and natural.”
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“For me, as I age, it’s inspiring to see her body remaining beautiful and active, always experimenting and communicating with the audience,” said Losier in an interview with Peaches published in the press notes for the film. “The body is always central to my films, and with Peaches, it was a significant gesture to meet a woman artist who deals with both intimacy and performance on stage,” Losier added.
Losier is best known for directing critically lauded documentaries including “The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye,” which won the Teddy Award at the Berlinale in 2011; “Cassandro El Exotico!,” winner of the Cannes ACID section in 2018; and “Felix in Wonderland,” which had its world premiere in Locarno in 2019. Losier’s work has also been celebrated with a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2018, where all her films were acquired for the museum’s archives; as well as at the Jeu de Paume, Museum of Contemporary Art in Paris a year later.
“Peaches Goes Bananas” was produced by Carole Chassaing at Tamara Films (“Cassandro El Exotico!”), Sébastien Andres and Alice Lemaire at Michigan Films (“The Damned,” “It’s Raining in the House”). The film will be released by Norte Distribution in France, and Galeries Distribution in Belgium. Best Friend Forever handles international sales for the documentary.
