Peggy Ahwesh Movies
- 2009
Bethlehem
Bethlehem02009HD
Writes Ahwesh: "Working through my archive of accumulated video footage, I pretended it was found footage from anonymous sources. What began as a...
- 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...
- 2007
Warm Objects
Warm Objects02007HD
Utilizing heat sensing imaging technology, scenes of everyday incidents of the city are transformed into glimpses of our world through an alien lens....
- 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...
- 1993
Philosophy in the Bedroom
Philosophy in the Bedroom01993HD
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...
- 1970
The Ape of Nature
The Ape of Nature01970HD
Investigates memory and the uncanny through the experience of hypnotized subjects who communicate via a glacial and slow storytelling informed by...
- 2006
Omedium
Omedium02006HD
"From a series of text videos based on the Spam emails that used to flood my in-box. Vintage, from 2006."
- 1980
Le Cyrk Wedding
Le Cyrk Wedding01980HD
A document of a 1980 gay wedding at Pittsburgh's Le Cyrk club
- 1983
Nostalgia for Paradise
Nostalgia for Paradise01983HD
The Pittsburgh Trilogy, pt. 3
- 1998
Lies and Excess
Lies and Excess01998HD
A fragment from an unfinished project by Peggy Ahwesh.
- 1997
The Vision Machine
The Vision Machine01997HD
Here Ahwesh's heterogeneous textual approach comes to the fore, as she juxtaposes narrative, faux documentary, comedic and "serious" footage, and...
- 1995
The Fragments Project
The Fragments Project01995HD
The Fragments Project is personal filmmaking at its most immediate — documents of people in the filmmaker's life. Each "fragment" demands the...
- 1983
Para-Normal Intelligence
Para-Normal Intelligence01983HD
Part Two of Peggy Ahwesh's Pittsburgh Trilogy
- 1970
Ode to the New Prehistory
Ode to the New Prehistory01970HD
A film about the socialization process and repression. My footage of family and friends intercut with Romero’s Dawn of the Dead and...
- 2005
H.D.
H.D.02005HD
Peggy Ahwesh, H.D., 2005, still from video with sound, 1 min. 30 sec.