Peter Doherty and Katia deVidas on Making Doc ‘Stranger in My Own Skin’ About the ‘Terror and Danger’ of Drug Addiction — and Falling in Love in the Process
variety.comEllise Shafer The first time Katia deVidas filmed Peter Doherty was in November 2006, at a Babyshambles concert in Paris. Over the next decade, deVidas would record more than 200 hours of footage of the musician — who ushered in a new era of British rock in the early 2000s as the co-frontman of the Libertines — capturing him at his best amid floods of creativity, but also at his worst as he tumbled further into drug addiction.
As the two grew closer, forging a friendship that would eventually turn into love, deVidas realized she had an incredible story to tell.
That footage became “Peter Doherty: Stranger in My Own Skin,” a raw and brutally honest portrait of an artist and addict, which premieres Friday night at the Zurich Film Festival. “I knew that Peter had a life that was really out of the ordinary.
It was a very intense, discombobulated world — so rich, so interesting. And so that’s what I was going to try and capture,” deVidas tells Variety over video chat from her and Doherty’s home in France.
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