Peggy Ahwesh Movies

Martina and Sonja, cross-dress in vampire capes and werewolf claws, re-enacting familiar horror tropes. A corresponding soundtrack of stock screams...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Martina Meijer Torr

Martina and Sonja, cross-dress in vampire capes and werewolf claws, re-enacting familiar horror tropes. A corresponding soundtrack of stock screams...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Martina Meijer Torr

Martina and Sonja, cross-dress in vampire capes and werewolf claws, re-enacting familiar horror tropes. A corresponding soundtrack of stock screams...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Martina Meijer Torr

Martina and Sonja, cross-dress in vampire capes and werewolf claws, re-enacting familiar horror tropes. A corresponding soundtrack of stock screams...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Martina Meijer Torr

Made in collaboration with Keith Sanborn, The Deadman is based on a story by Bataille, charting "the adventures of a near-naked heroine who sets in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jennifer Montgomery

Peggy Ahwesh re-edits and optically prints a Super 8 stag loop, rarifying the degraded images into an abstract stained-glass mosaic.From a clumsy and...

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A quartet of crack addicts, absorbed by their life of pure sensation, are holed up inside while the world outside is about to explode.

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Cast: Cheryl Dunye

Martina plays on her own and with her mother, Jennifer talks, stock footage of flowers is talked over.

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Cast: Diana Torr

Lara Croft, the virtual girl-doll of the late 20th century, is recast as a triad of her personas: the alien, the orphan, and the clone in this work...

Genre: Animation

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A quartet of crack addicts, absorbed by their life of pure sensation, are holed up inside while the world outside is about to explode.

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Cast: Cheryl Dunye

This lunar eclipse event of November 2003 is observed, documented, and translated by eye and hand via the light-sensitive medium of Kodachrome film....

Genre: History

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Nocturne is a psychological horror film built on the conflicts of a woman tortured by the ambiguity between reality and illusion, dream and desire....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bradley Eros

Fragments from movies found in an abandoned cinema in Beirut. Retrieved by Mr. Salloum. Assembled by Ms. Ahwesh.

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From Romance to Ritual invokes and inverts the title of the 1920 book by Jessie L. Weston, as it, like the book, draws connections between pagan...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Margie Strosser

An experimental documentary filmed over a two-year period, NOTES FROM THE LOWER EAST SIDE includes such personalities as Clayton Patterson,...

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A quartet of crack addicts, absorbed by their life of pure sensation, are holed up inside while the world outside is about to explode.

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Cast: Cheryl Dunye

My cat Claude was recovering from a car accident that nearly killed him and I thought it would be interesting to have his aura read. I wanted to see...

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Writes Ahwesh: "Working through my archive of accumulated video footage, I pretended it was found footage from anonymous sources. What began as a...

Genre: Documentary

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Activities at home with Mistress and her naughty pet.

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An appropriated film, portraying the arrival of Adam and Eve to an exotic Eden, is intercut with appropriated videos of virtual reality...

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"Starting with YouTube videos made to convey world news through animation, I re-purposed them into short episodes of the Israeli-Gaza conflict of...

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"A visual essay drawn from my experience of being embedded for some time in a place, one that is both beautiful and ancient but also is an abysmal...

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"The sociopolitical landscape of the West Bank is featured, drifting through a bewildering network of dead ends, voided zones and semi-porous...

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"Refashioning the intent of footage lifted from an online Taiwanese news outlet, this cautionary tale is about the inexplicable sea - a poetic tour...

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73 Suspect Words is a deceptively simple and ultimately chilling meditation on the power of text. Ahwesh succinctly delves into one person's...

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With Heaven's Gate, Ahwesh employs a strategy similar to that used in 73 Suspect Words: against a blank screen, a metronomic procession of single...

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It's a portrait of my friend Renate, who was born in Berlin and spent her early childhood playing in the rubble after WW2. She tells stories and...

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Refashioning the original intention of footage lifted from an online animated news outlet, The Falling Sky is a cautionary tale about the...

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Peggy Ahwesh, H.D., 2005, still from video with sound, 1 min. 30 sec.

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"A four-channel video installation featuring original footage shot primarily from a bird’s eye view of the Kansas town known as the...

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"A video installation of four stacked monitors that focuses on two conflicting narratives of the military operation that successfully “took...

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"A four-channel video with four flat screens in a square formation, in which eight prototypes for Trump’s wall stand in line on the San Diego...

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The Fragments Project is personal filmmaking at its most immediate — documents of people in the filmmaker's life. Each "fragment" demands the...

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Part Two of Peggy Ahwesh's Pittsburgh Trilogy

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Buddy, a young gay man leaves his small-town home in rural Upstate New York to make a new life in New York City.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michael Waite

Buddy, a young gay man leaves his small-town home in rural Upstate New York to make a new life in New York City.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michael Waite

A home-movie paean to the Marquis de Sade, Philosophy in the Bedroom plumbs the depths of boudoir small talk. In the first part, a newly-acquainted...

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Cast: Natalka Voslakov

Utilizing heat sensing imaging technology, scenes of everyday incidents of the city are transformed into glimpses of our world through an alien lens....

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A short and inconclusive treatise on women and gambling. The allure of risk taking, the contradictions of excessive behavior and a penchant for...

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Cast: Jackie Smith

A short and inconclusive treatise on women and gambling. The allure of risk taking, the contradictions of excessive behavior and a penchant for...

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Cast: Jackie Smith

A short and inconclusive treatise on women and gambling. The allure of risk taking, the contradictions of excessive behavior and a penchant for...

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Cast: Jackie Smith

A short and inconclusive treatise on women and gambling. The allure of risk taking, the contradictions of excessive behavior and a penchant for...

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Cast: Jackie Smith

A ramshackle underground SF satire set and shot in the self-absorbed art world of lower Manhattan, written, produced, and directed by Joe Gibbons,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joe Gibbons

A ramshackle underground SF satire set and shot in the self-absorbed art world of lower Manhattan, written, produced, and directed by Joe Gibbons,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joe Gibbons

The summer of 2020 I spent most nights outdoors alone transfixed by the theater of the stars and the dance of the fireflies. My sense of time...

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Here Ahwesh's heterogeneous textual approach comes to the fore, as she juxtaposes narrative, faux documentary, comedic and "serious" footage, and...

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A fragment from an unfinished project by Peggy Ahwesh.

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Lara Croft, the virtual girl-doll of the late 20th century, is recast as a triad of her personas: the alien, the orphan, and the clone in this work...

Genre: Animation

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Lara Croft, the virtual girl-doll of the late 20th century, is recast as a triad of her personas: the alien, the orphan, and the clone in this work...

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The summer of 2020 I spent most nights outdoors alone transfixed by the theater of the stars and the dance of the fireflies. My sense of time...

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In this new collaborative work, the legacy of renegade scientist and social thinker Wilhelm Reich gets the musical treatment it has long deserved,...

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A re-staging of Reich’s question, “Am I a Spaceman?”, at a cloudbuster near his laboratory in Rangeley, Maine. 2) A re-staging of...

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A document of a 1980 gay wedding at Pittsburgh's Le Cyrk club

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A document of a 1980 gay wedding at Pittsburgh's Le Cyrk club

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Futuristic story of Carlos and Ben who fall in love in high school despite the racism and and homophobia. When Fundamentalist forces threaten to take...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Al Giordano