Peggy Ahwesh Movies
- 2004
Certain Women
Certain Women02004HD
Caldwell's pulp storytelling, proto-feminist stance and unabashed social dramatization of his characters are a distinct vision of the condition of...
- 2018
The Falling Sky
The Falling Sky42018HD
Refashioning the original intention of footage lifted from an online animated news outlet, The Falling Sky is a cautionary tale about the...
- 2000
73 Suspect Words
73 Suspect Words02000HD
73 Suspect Words is a deceptively simple and ultimately chilling meditation on the power of text. Ahwesh succinctly delves into one person's...
- 2023
OR119 Outtakes at the Cloudbuster
OR119 Outtakes at the Cloudbuster02023HD
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...
- 2015
Alluvium
Alluvium02015HD
"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...
- 2016
The Blackest Sea
The Blackest Sea02016HD
"Refashioning the intent of footage lifted from an online Taiwanese news outlet, this cautionary tale is about the inexplicable sea - a poetic tour...
- 2011
My Cat gets an Aura Reading
My Cat gets an Aura Reading02011HD
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...
- 1985
From Romance to Ritual
From Romance to Ritual61985HD
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...
- 1987
Rainy Season
Rainy Season01987HD
Thanksgiving in California is the setting in which the viewer experiences "the depression inherent to festive occasions. There were many things...
- 2019
Re: The Operation
Re: The Operation02019HD
"A video installation of four stacked monitors that focuses on two conflicting narratives of the military operation that successfully “took...
- 1986
Martina's Playhouse
Martina's Playhouse71986HD
Martina plays on her own and with her mother, Jennifer talks, stock footage of flowers is talked over.
- 2004
The Star Eaters
The Star Eaters02004HD
A short and inconclusive treatise on women and gambling. The allure of risk taking, the contradictions of excessive behavior and a penchant for...
- 2019
Kansas Atlas
Kansas Atlas02019HD
"A four-channel video installation featuring original footage shot primarily from a bird’s eye view of the Kansas town known as the...
- 2022
EROS BDAY MUSH.mov
EROS BDAY MUSH.mov02022HD
An edible indelible organic oneiric mushroom movie made for Bradley Eros on his 70th Birthday!
- 1989
Fill Thy Crack with Whiteness
Fill Thy Crack with Whiteness01989HD
A music-filled tour of Christmas good cheer overtakes this gastronomically oriented excursion through the winter season of discontent and yuletime...
- 2007
The Third Body
The Third Body02007HD
An appropriated film, portraying the arrival of Adam and Eve to an exotic Eden, is intercut with appropriated videos of virtual reality...
- 2014
Kissing Point
Kissing Point02014HD
"The sociopolitical landscape of the West Bank is featured, drifting through a bewildering network of dead ends, voided zones and semi-porous...
- 2015
Lessons of War
Lessons of War02015HD
"Starting with YouTube videos made to convey world news through animation, I re-purposed them into short episodes of the Israeli-Gaza conflict of...
- 1987
Doppelganger
Doppelganger01987HD
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...
- 2019
Border Control
Border Control02019HD
"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...