Peggy Ahwesh Movies
- 2007
365 Day Project
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This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007...
- 1995
The Second Coming
The Second Coming3.81995HD
Futuristic story of Carlos and Ben who fall in love in high school despite the racism and and homophobia. When Fundamentalist forces threaten to take...
- 1993
The Genius
The Genius51993HD
A ramshackle underground SF satire set and shot in the self-absorbed art world of lower Manhattan, written, produced, and directed by Joe Gibbons,...
- 2015
The Making of a Superhero Musical
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A mockumentary following the troubled production of Clockmen: The Musical, focusing on a cosplayer-turned-actress who reacts to the stress of the...
- 2001
She Puppet
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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...
- 1993
Strange Weather
Strange Weather01993HD
A quartet of crack addicts, absorbed by their life of pure sensation, are holed up inside while the world outside is about to explode.
- 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...
- 1994
The Color of Love
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Peggy Ahwesh re-edits and optically prints a Super 8 stag loop, rarifying the degraded images into an abstract stained-glass mosaic.From a clumsy and...
- 1993
The Scary Movie
The Scary Movie6.61993HD
Martina and Sonja, cross-dress in vampire capes and werewolf claws, re-enacting familiar horror tropes. A corresponding soundtrack of stock screams...
- 1989
Fun Down There
Fun Down There61989HD
Buddy, a young gay man leaves his small-town home in rural Upstate New York to make a new life in New York City.
- 1998
Nocturne
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Nocturne is a psychological horror film built on the conflicts of a woman tortured by the ambiguity between reality and illusion, dream and desire....
- 1970
Dubai Fountain
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"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...
- 1989
The Deadman
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Made in collaboration with Keith Sanborn, The Deadman is based on a story by Bataille, charting "the adventures of a near-naked heroine who sets in...
- 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.
- 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...
- 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....
- 2021
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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 2001
Heaven's Gate
Heaven's Gate02001HD
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...