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Peaches does her own Horror Picture Show
Indie | Thursday 20th September 2012 | Osh
The Canadian musician/performer pushes the limits in her debut film which could be defined as a career-retrospective trans-rock opera.
Peaches is back, now willing to blow everyone’s sensibilities through the big screen. The unclassifiable artist, originally from Toronto, became a cult icon after moving to Berlin, where she has been performing a merge of rock and electro and shameless performances for more than ten years. Her first film, Peaches Does Herself, which was released last week in the Toronto International Film Festival, is meant to be a retrospective of her performances which mixes 20 of her songs in an abstract narrative. Transgressor, politically incorrect and defining all labels, she portrays in this quasi-autobiographical, career-chronicling theatrical production all the eccentric world that inhabits her mind.
In this wild transsexual rock opera, we could see, as the artist explains, “a 40-people cast, crew, huge set pieces from like operating tables and lasers to lots of cast and dancers. We need a backer. It’s like the Rocky Horror Picture Show for the next generation. The actual stage production was filmed many times and we’re redesigning the sound so that it will be a film – more like Sandra Bernhard's Without You I’m Nothing, or a little bit of Tommy and stuff like that." Ok, she forgot to say there is also full-frontal nudity courtesy of trans- porn actress Danni Daniels, an oversize upholstered vagina and a sixty-five-year-old stripper. All of it to deal with themes such as gender, beauty and age.
Peaches, after succeeding with albums like The Teaches of Peaches, Impeach My Bush or I Feel Cream, is currently working in her fifth full length. Expect anything but ‘normal’.
By Laura Vila
