Peggy Ahwesh Movies

"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...

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...

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

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

Investigates memory and the uncanny through the experience of hypnotized subjects who communicate via a glacial and slow storytelling informed by...

"From a series of text videos based on the Spam emails that used to flood my in-box. Vintage, from 2006."

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

The Pittsburgh Trilogy, pt. 3

A fragment from an unfinished project by Peggy Ahwesh.

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

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...

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

Part Two of Peggy Ahwesh's Pittsburgh Trilogy

A film about the socialization process and repression. My footage of family and friends intercut with Romero’s Dawn of the Dead and...

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