Peggy Ahwesh Movies

  • 1995
    The Second Coming

    The Second Coming

    The Second Coming

    3.81995HD

    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...

    The Second Coming
  • 2015
    The Making of a Superhero Musical

    The Making of a Superhero Musical

    The Making of a Superhero Musical

    02015HD

    A mockumentary following the troubled production of Clockmen: The Musical, focusing on a cosplayer-turned-actress who reacts to the stress of the...

    The Making of a Superhero Musical
  • 1993
    The Scary Movie

    The Scary Movie

    The Scary Movie

    6.61993HD

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

    The Scary Movie
  • 2007
    365 Day Project

    365 Day Project

    365 Day Project

    02007HD

    This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007...

    365 Day Project
  • 1993
    The Genius

    The Genius

    The Genius

    51993HD

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

    The Genius
  • 1994
    The Color of Love

    The Color of Love

    The Color of Love

    6.11994HD

    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...

    The Color of Love
  • 2005
    Eclipse

    Eclipse

    Eclipse

    72005HD

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

    Eclipse
  • 1989
    Fun Down There

    Fun Down There

    Fun Down There

    61989HD

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

    Fun Down There
  • 1998
    Nocturne

    Nocturne

    Nocturne

    41998HD

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

    Nocturne
  • 1989
    The Deadman

    The Deadman

    The Deadman

    4.31989HD

    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...

    The Deadman
  • 2009
    Bethlehem

    Bethlehem

    Bethlehem

    02009HD

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

    Bethlehem
  • 2021
    Curve the Night Sky

    Curve the Night Sky

    Curve the Night Sky

    02021HD

    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...

    Curve the Night Sky
  • 1993
    Strange Weather

    Strange Weather

    Strange Weather

    01993HD

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

    Strange Weather
  • 1996
    Trick Film

    Trick Film

    Trick Film

    21996HD

    Activities at home with Mistress and her naughty pet.

    Trick Film
  • 2012
    Notes From the Lower East Side

    Notes From the Lower East Side

    Notes From the Lower East Side

    02012HD

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

    Notes From the Lower East Side
  • 2023
    OR119

    OR119

    OR119

    02023HD

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

    OR119
  • 2001
    She Puppet

    She Puppet

    She Puppet

    6.32001HD

    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...

    She Puppet
  • 2008
    Deliver

    Deliver

    Deliver

    02008HD

    Like a generation of viewers, I was profoundly affected by Deliverance. But I have always been troubled by the hegemonic structures of gender...

    Deliver
  • 2016
    The Blackest Sea

    The Blackest Sea

    The Blackest Sea

    02016HD

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

    The Blackest Sea
  • 2007
    Beirut Outtakes

    Beirut Outtakes

    Beirut Outtakes

    02007HD

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

    Beirut Outtakes