Watch Docs outdoors: projection of “Peaches Goes Bananas”
direction Marie Losier
Tickets: free entry
Together with the International Film Festival WATCH DOCS. Human Rights in Film, we invite you to the summer cinema in the courtyard of the Komuna Warszawa Theatre.
‘Peaches Goes Bananas’ is a daring portrait of a feminist electro-punk icon. The artist started out in cramped basements, only to fill huge halls a few years later – she drew real crowds to festival stages. It was all thanks to her radical yet infectiously upbeat songs and captivating stage performances, full of irony and perverse eroticism. Her trademark has become a bravura subversion of moral stereotypes and taboos relating to sex or women’s place in society. Marie Losier has created an intimate portrait of this versatile and courageous artist, but intimacy has nothing to do with sexuality or carnality – after all, Peaches sings about these things and even shouts them from the stage. Instead, the director has managed to get to places and issues that are impossible to hear about at a concert. In front of the camera, Peaches talks about her family, looks through childhood photos and shows how she spends time with her boyfriend. This film is at once a dynamic and loud account of the concert, a raw reportage from the dressing room and a home video of surprisingly ordinary moments in the life of a very extraordinary person.
[ Przemysław Gulda for Watch Docs ].
Peaches Goes Bananas, directed by Marie Losier, France, Belgium, 2024
Duration: 73 minutes
About the festival
WATCH DOCS presents documentaries in which a commitment to individual rights is combined with the art of filmmaking.
More than fifty world-class films are screened at the festival each year. In total, more than one hundred thousand viewers watch them annually at the international festival in Warsaw, at the travelling festival in more than thirty Polish towns and cities and as part of the online festival.
The WATCH DOCS festival was established in 2001 as a programme of a Polish NGO, the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights. The establishment of the Foundation was preceded by seven years of activity by the Helsinki Committee in Poland, which had been working underground since 1982. Today, the Helsinki Foundation is one of the most experienced European human rights NGOs. It runs education, intervention and monitoring programmes. A significant part of its activities concern human rights in the post-Soviet states.
Co-financing
The activities of the Komuna Warszawa Theatre are financed by the City of Warsaw as part of the Komuna Warszawa – Social Institution of Culture project.
