The journey to this year’s Venice Film Festival began nearly two decades ago for documentary filmmaker Marie Losier and pop icon Merrill Nisker—better known to the world as Peaches. When they met backstage at a show, Losier instinctively pointed her Bolex camera at the musician—and she didn’t stop filming for 17 years after that.

The result is “Peaches Goes Bananas,” an intimate and unconventional documentary premiering in the Venice Days section.

The project is the second Peaches-focused effort to hit the festival circuit this year, following Philipp Fussenegger and Judy Landkammer's "Teaches of Peaches" in Berlin, and the singer sees no overlap.

"The projects are so different," Nisker tells Variety . "One is more of a documentary of a particular album at a particular time, [whereas] Marie's film—well, I don't even consider it a documentary. It's more of a painting, a portrait. Marie gets excited about an artist and then goes her own way."