Peggy Ahwesh Movies
- 2007
Beirut Outtakes
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Fragments from movies found in an abandoned cinema in Beirut. Retrieved by Mr. Salloum. Assembled by Ms. Ahwesh.
- 2004
The Star Eaters
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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...
- 1993
The Genius
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A ramshackle underground SF satire set and shot in the self-absorbed art world of lower Manhattan, written, produced, and directed by Joe Gibbons,...
- 2016
The Blackest Sea
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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...
- 2000
73 Suspect Words
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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...
- 2008
Deliver
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Like a generation of viewers, I was profoundly affected by Deliverance. But I have always been troubled by the hegemonic structures of gender...
- 2005
Eclipse
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This lunar eclipse event of November 2003 is observed, documented, and translated by eye and hand via the light-sensitive medium of Kodachrome film....
- 2019
Re: The Operation
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"A video installation of four stacked monitors that focuses on two conflicting narratives of the military operation that successfully “took...
- 2007
The Third Body
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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...
- 2023
OR119 Outtakes at the Cloudbuster
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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...
- 2023
OR119
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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,...
- 2022
EROS BDAY MUSH.mov
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An edible indelible organic oneiric mushroom movie made for Bradley Eros on his 70th Birthday!
- 2019
Kansas Atlas
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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...
- 1991
Age 12: Love with a Little L
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This film is depicts early lesbian sexuality, using reenacted scenes from the experience of a 12-year old girl as the platform for a meditation on...
- 2022
Curve the Night Sky
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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...
- 1985
From Romance to Ritual
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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...
- 2009
Bethlehem
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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...
- 1987
Doppelganger
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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...
- 2015
Alluvium
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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...
- 2007
Warm Objects
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Utilizing heat sensing imaging technology, scenes of everyday incidents of the city are transformed into glimpses of our world through an alien lens....