Peggy Ahwesh Movies

  • 2004
    Certain Women

    Certain Women

    Certain Women

    02004HD

    Caldwell's pulp storytelling, proto-feminist stance and unabashed social dramatization of his characters are a distinct vision of the condition of...

    Certain Women
  • 2018
    The Falling Sky

    The Falling Sky

    The Falling Sky

    42018HD

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

    The Falling Sky
  • 2000
    73 Suspect Words

    73 Suspect Words

    73 Suspect Words

    02000HD

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

    73 Suspect Words
  • 2023
    OR119 Outtakes at the Cloudbuster

    OR119 Outtakes at the Cloudbuster

    OR119 Outtakes at the Cloudbuster

    02023HD

    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...

    OR119 Outtakes at the Cloudbuster
  • 2015
    Alluvium

    Alluvium

    Alluvium

    02015HD

    "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...

    Alluvium
  • 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
  • 2011
    My Cat gets an Aura Reading

    My Cat gets an Aura Reading

    My Cat gets an Aura Reading

    02011HD

    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...

    My Cat gets an Aura Reading
  • 1985
    From Romance to Ritual

    From Romance to Ritual

    From Romance to Ritual

    61985HD

    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...

    From Romance to Ritual
  • 1987
    Rainy Season

    Rainy Season

    Rainy Season

    01987HD

    Thanksgiving in California is the setting in which the viewer experiences "the depression inherent to festive occasions. There were many things...

    Rainy Season
  • 2019
    Re: The Operation

    Re: The Operation

    Re: The Operation

    02019HD

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

    Re: The Operation
  • 1986
    Martina's Playhouse

    Martina's Playhouse

    Martina's Playhouse

    71986HD

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

    Martina's Playhouse
  • 2004
    The Star Eaters

    The Star Eaters

    The Star Eaters

    02004HD

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

    The Star Eaters
  • 2019
    Kansas Atlas

    Kansas Atlas

    Kansas Atlas

    02019HD

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

    Kansas Atlas
  • 2022
    EROS BDAY MUSH.mov

    EROS BDAY MUSH.mov

    EROS BDAY MUSH.mov

    02022HD

    An edible indelible organic oneiric mushroom movie made for Bradley Eros on his 70th Birthday!

    EROS BDAY MUSH.mov
  • 1989
    Fill Thy Crack with Whiteness

    Fill Thy Crack with Whiteness

    Fill Thy Crack with Whiteness

    01989HD

    A music-filled tour of Christmas good cheer overtakes this gastronomically oriented excursion through the winter season of discontent and yuletime...

    Fill Thy Crack with Whiteness
  • 2007
    The Third Body

    The Third Body

    The Third Body

    02007HD

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

    The Third Body
  • 2014
    Kissing Point

    Kissing Point

    Kissing Point

    02014HD

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

    Kissing Point
  • 2015
    Lessons of War

    Lessons of War

    Lessons of War

    02015HD

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

    Lessons of War
  • 1987
    Doppelganger

    Doppelganger

    Doppelganger

    01987HD

    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...

    Doppelganger
  • 2019
    Border Control

    Border Control

    Border Control

    02019HD

    "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...

    Border Control