{"id":19235,"date":"2012-09-09T18:58:34","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T22:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=19235"},"modified":"2012-09-09T18:58:34","modified_gmt":"2012-09-09T22:58:34","slug":"peaches-does-herself-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=19235","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Peaches Does Herself&#8221; Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-19236\" title=\"peaches\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/peaches-560x322.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/peaches-560x322.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/peaches.jpg 1131w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The first feature film by notorious Canadian musician and performance artist <a href=\"http:\/\/peachesrocks.com\/category\/news\/\">Peaches<\/a> is a wild transsexual rock opera, screening in conjunction with a new installation and a night of performances.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You might call <em>Peaches Does Herself<\/em> a transsexual rock opera, or a sex-change jukebox musical \u2014 or you might just call it Peaches being Peaches on the big screen.<\/p>\n<p>One of the world&#8217;s most beloved perform-ance artists and a legendary transgressive rock \u2019n\u2019 roller, Toronto-born Peaches has been an icon of the Berlin art scene for more than a decade. Her constantly evolving practice has created a host of famous and indelible videos, performances, installations, lectures and kick-ass concerts.\u00a0<em>Peaches Does Herself<\/em>, her first feature film, brings together all of these elements and more, serving as both a rich retrospective of, and whiplash introduction to, this elemental performer&#8217;s work.<\/p>\n<p>The film largely takes place on intricately connected sets. It begins with a philosophical lecture that is rudely interrupted by Peaches, who is spurred on by the advice of a sixty-five-year-old stripper to transform into a musician with magical sexual powers. As the story takes the shape of an operetta, Peaches&#8217; popularity grows and she seeks to gratify her fans&#8217; desires by becoming transsexual. She falls in love with a beautiful she-male, but when her heart is broken she must dig deep to find out what she desires and who she truly is. All of this is set to an electro-rock score performed by an ever-growing band, and accompanied by a host of fantastical dancers. The &#8220;fourth wall&#8221; is only broken at the finale, as Peaches tricycles away, up the street, with a new-found freedom.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tiff.net\/filmsandschedules\/tiff\/2012\/peachesdoesherself\"><em>Toronto International Film Festival<\/em><\/a>, Toronto, Canada, Thursday 13-Sunday 16<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe first feature film by notorious Canadian musician and performance artist Peaches is a wild transsexual rock opera, screening in conjunction with a new installation and a night of performances.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nYou might call Peaches Does Herself a transsexual rock opera, or a sex-change jukebox musical \u2014 or you might just call it Peaches being Peaches on [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[2457,598,232,2456,2458],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19235"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19276,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19235\/revisions\/19276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}