Peggy Ahwesh Movies

Writes Ahwesh: "Working through my archive of accumulated video footage, I pretended it was found footage from anonymous sources. What began as a...

"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...

Utilizing heat sensing imaging technology, scenes of everyday incidents of the city are transformed into glimpses of our world through an alien lens....

"Refashioning the intent of footage lifted from an online Taiwanese news outlet, this cautionary tale is about the inexplicable sea - a poetic tour...

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...

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...

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.