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Peggy Ahwesh

Peggy Ahwesh

Peggy Ahwesh is an American experimental filmmaker and video artist.

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Movies Made By Peggy Ahwesh (44)

OR119 (2023)

In this new collaborative work, the legacy of renegade scientist and social thinker Wilhelm Reich gets the musical treatment it has long deserved, thanks to filmmakers Peggy Ahwesh and Jacqueline Goss, and an ensemble of co-conspirators including composer ...

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OR119 Outtakes at the Cloudbuster (2023)

A re-staging of Reich's question, "Am I a Spaceman?", at a cloudbuster near his laboratory in Rangeley, Maine. 2) A re-staging of the spaceman's warning speech to earthlings in THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL. Here the spaceship is replaced by WR's tomb. ...

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EROS BDAY MUSH.mov (2022)

An edible indelible organic oneiric mushroom movie made for Bradley Eros on his 70th Birthday! ...

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Curve the Night Sky (2022)

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 expanded and slowed but the time-lapse camera condenses and speeds up the experience, in seeming contradiction. I ...

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Curve the Night Sky (2021)

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 expanded and slowed but the time-lapse camera condenses and speeds up the experience, in seeming contradiction. I ...

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Kansas Atlas (2019)

"A four-channel video installation featuring original footage shot primarily from a bird's eye view of the Kansas town known as the geographical center of the US as a way to reflect upon what the artist considers "a metonymy for the country as a whole". Do ...

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Border Control (2019)

"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 border as shot by Ahwesh from the Mexican side. Unexpectedly, a man climbs over the current fence and disappears i ...

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Re: The Operation (2019)

"A video installation of four stacked monitors that focuses on two conflicting narratives of the military operation that successfully "took out" Osama Bin Laden: the official US version vs. that revealed through investigative reporting. Each story, reconst ...

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The Falling Sky (2018)

Refashioning the original intention of footage lifted from an online animated news outlet, The Falling Sky is a cautionary tale about the inexplicable sea and the tumultuous sky—a poetic tour through the dense landscape of recent news in a recap of human ...

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The Blackest Sea (2016)

"Refashioning the intent of footage lifted from an online Taiwanese news outlet, this cautionary tale is about the inexplicable sea - a poetic tour through the obsession to conquer the Great Whale to the current crisis of the migrants fleeing war. ...

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Lessons of War (2015)

"Starting with YouTube videos made to convey world news through animation, I re-purposed them into short episodes of the Israeli-Gaza conflict of 2014. The 'cuteness effect' of the cartoon form allows for a buffer from reality, a viewing ease and distance ...

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Alluvium (2015)

"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 war zone -- the occupied territory of Palestine. The piece quotes Jalal Toufic, Jean Genet and H.P. Lovecraf ...

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Kissing Point (2014)

"The sociopolitical landscape of the West Bank is featured, drifting through a bewildering network of dead ends, voided zones and semi-porous borders. The term used in negotiation, 'kissing point' descries the point where two (enemy) territories must make ...

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Notes From the Lower East Side (2012)

An experimental documentary filmed over a two-year period, NOTES FROM THE LOWER EAST SIDE includes such personalities as Clayton Patterson, performance artist Penny Arcade, Anthology's own Jed Rapfogel, and other amazing HOWL Fest personalities. ...

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My Cat gets an Aura Reading (2011)

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 how he was feeling psychically and test for trauma or unhappiness. Fortunately, the cat seemed to be fine a ...

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Bethlehem (2009)

Writes Ahwesh: "Working through my archive of accumulated video footage, I pretended it was found footage from anonymous sources. What began as a tribute to Bruce Conner of the period of Valse Triste and Take the 5:10 to Dreamland, with their deliberate pa ...

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The Third Body (2007)

An appropriated film, portraying the arrival of Adam and Eve to an exotic Eden, is intercut with appropriated videos of virtual reality demonstrations, among them a human hand shadowed by a computer-generated rendering, medical robots conducting a virtual ...

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Beirut Outtakes (2007)

Fragments from movies found in an abandoned cinema in Beirut. Retrieved by Mr. Salloum. Assembled by Ms. Ahwesh. ...

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Observando el cielo (2007)

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

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Warm Objects (2007)

Utilizing heat sensing imaging technology, scenes of everyday incidents of the city are transformed into glimpses of our world through an alien lens. Two insertions of on-screen text betray Ahwesh's ominous implications. The first is a meditation on Rudyar ...

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Eclipse (2005)

This lunar eclipse event of November 2003 is observed, documented, and translated by eye and hand via the light-sensitive medium of Kodachrome film. In the 4th c BCE Aristotle founded The Lyceum, a school for the study of all natural phenomena pursued with ...

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H.D. (2005)

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

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Certain Women (2004)

Caldwell's pulp storytelling, proto-feminist stance and unabashed social dramatization of his characters are a distinct vision of the condition of women -- specifically working class women. His broadly drawn themes of small town hypocrisy and restrictive m ...

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The Star Eaters (2004)

A short and inconclusive treatise on women and gambling. The allure of risk taking, the contradictions of excessive behavior and a penchant for failure combine in this fairytale set in the abandoned decay which was onced a glamorous Atlantic City. A sentim ...

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She Puppet (2001)

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 based on appropriated footage from the game Tomb Raider. ...

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Heaven's Gate (2001)

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 words unfolds, gradually building into a cool, minimal portrait of the apocalyptic paranoia that runs through ...

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73 Suspect Words (2000)

73 Suspect Words is a deceptively simple and ultimately chilling meditation on the power of text. Ahwesh succinctly delves into one person's obsessive irrationality, and his expressions of fear and anger. Based on a spell-check of the Unabomber's manifesto ...

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Nocturne (1998)

Nocturne is a psychological horror film built on the conflicts of a woman tortured by the ambiguity between reality and illusion, dream and desire. The woman has perhaps murdered her lover and is living in an unstable world when he returns to her at night, ...

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The Vision Machine (1997)

Here Ahwesh's heterogeneous textual approach comes to the fore, as she juxtaposes narrative, faux documentary, comedic and "serious" footage, and merges film, video, and Pixelvision. Suggestions and meanings accumulate: austere, theoretical text is interru ...

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Trick Film (1996)

Activities at home with Mistress and her naughty pet. ...

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The Second Coming (1995)

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 over the U.S. the pair join forces with an underground resistance movement. ...

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The Fragments Project (1995)

The Fragments Project is personal filmmaking at its most immediate — documents of people in the filmmaker's life. Each "fragment" demands the viewer's involvement on multiple levels. Ahwesh's project becomes a fascinating report on our times and an inves ...

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The Color of Love (1994)

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 heavy-handed pornographic film of the seventies that bad storage conditions have deteriorated over time, ...

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The Genius (1993)

A ramshackle underground SF satire set and shot in the self-absorbed art world of lower Manhattan, written, produced, and directed by Joe Gibbons, who also plays one of the lead parts. Gibbons plays a mad scientist who's developed a technique for transferr ...

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Philosophy in the Bedroom (1993)

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 odd couple discuss desire—and lack thereof—over a bag of potato chips. In the second part, a recumbent w ...

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The Scary Movie (1993)

Martina and Sonja, cross-dress in vampire capes and werewolf claws, re-enacting familiar horror tropes. A corresponding soundtrack of stock screams and "scary" music suggests that the girls' toying with gender roles and power dynamics may have dire consequ ...

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Strange Weather (1993)

A quartet of crack addicts in Miami sit around, while outside, the biggest hurricane of the century is about to hit. The Pixelvision camera roams restlessly through the apartment, focusing nervously on the tiniest details, but never staying in any one spot ...

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Fun Down There (1989)

Buddy, a young gay man leaves his small-town home in rural Upstate New York to make a new life in New York City. ...

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The Deadman (1989)

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 motion a scabrous free-form orgy before returning to the house to die — a combination of elegance, raunchy ...

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Damned If You Don't (1987)

It begins with footage from a stylish old potboiler about an isolated convent, whose tale of passions leashed and unleashed provides the leitmotif for a young lesbian who watches it and the lonely nun she pursues and seduces. As the two women's lives come ...

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Doppelganger (1987)

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 recites entries from her diary in both English and German, evoking history, trauma and lost loves. Shot in long ...

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Martina's Playhouse (1986)

Martina plays on her own and with her mother, Jennifer talks, stock footage of flowers is talked over. ...

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From Romance to Ritual (1985)

From Romance to Ritual invokes and inverts the title of the 1920 book by Jessie L. Weston, as it, like the book, draws connections between pagan history and ritual and mythology. ...

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Movies Starring Peggy Ahwesh (7)

The Making of a Superhero Musical (2015)

A mockumentary following the troubled production of Clockmen: The Musical, focusing on a cosplayer-turned-actress who reacts to the stress of the production in a rather unusual way. ...

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Deliver (2008)

Like a generation of viewers, I was profoundly affected by Deliverance. But I have always been troubled by the hegemonic structures of gender proposed by Boorman and Dickey. Hence, my version is played by women: myself, Peggy Ahwesh, Jackie Goss, Su Fried ...

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365 Day Project (2007)

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 and for an entire year, as indicated in the title, a large public (the artist's friends, as well as unknowns) were ...

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The Scary Movie (1993)

Martina and Sonja, cross-dress in vampire capes and werewolf claws, re-enacting familiar horror tropes. A corresponding soundtrack of stock screams and "scary" music suggests that the girls' toying with gender roles and power dynamics may have dire consequ ...

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Age 12: Love with a Little L (1991)

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 forbidden desire, transgression, and Lacanian psychoanalytic concepts of identity formation. Raw adolescent m ...

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Fill Thy Crack with Whiteness (1989)

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

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Rainy Season (1987)

Thanksgiving in California is the setting in which the viewer experiences "the depression inherent to festive occasions. There were many things bothering me at this time, or maybe it was one thing that broke into many pieces. ...

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