Peggy Ahwesh Movies

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

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

Wadena, MN: (population 4,060: town motto “Where the Prairie Meets the Woodands”) was hit by a tornado in June, 2010. “I...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

“Qalandia” is made entirely with footage Peggy Ahwesh recorded in the mid-2010s when she and a friend “broke into” the...

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...

"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...

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...

"This is footage of the famous fountain at the Burj Khalifa in Dubai that I shot in April, 2010 when I was there for the art fair. The song is Amvaj...

Seven years of celestial field recordings gathered from the chaos of the cosmos and inscribed onto 16mm film from various locations upon this turning...

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

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

A fragment from an unfinished project by Peggy Ahwesh.

Activities at home with Mistress and her naughty pet.