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Peggy Ahwesh (b. 1954 in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania) is an American experimental filmmaker and video artist. A bricoleur who has created both narrative works and documentaries, some projects are scripted and others incorporate improvised performance. She makes use of sync sound, found footage, digital animation, and Pixelvision video. Her work is primarily an investigation of cultural identity and the role of the subject in various genres. Her interests include genre; women, sexuality and feminism; reenactment; and artists' books. Her works have been shown worldwide, including in San Francisco, New York, Barcelona, London, Toronto, Rotterdam, and Créteil, France. Starting in 1990, she has taught at Bard College as a Professor of Film and Electronic Arts. Her teaching interests include: experimental media, history of the non-fiction film, and women in film.
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02 January 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.
01 January 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 defilement and barbaric splendor.
21 February 2014
"The sociopolitical landscape of the West Bank is featured, drifting through a bewildering network of dead ends, voided zones and semi-porous borders.
13 February 1996
Activities at home with Mistress and her naughty pet.
03 March 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 Zach Layton and performers Cecilia Aldarondo, Laith Ayogu, Lana Lin, Jennifer Montgomery, and Marianne Shaneen, among many others.
27 September 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”.
19 November 1987
Thanksgiving in California is the setting in which the viewer experiences "the depression inherent to festive occasions.
10 March 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.
01 January 2005
Peggy Ahwesh, H.D., 2005, still from video with sound, 1 min. 30 sec.
21 February 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.
02 April 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.
02 January 1993
A home-movie paean to the Marquis de Sade, Philosophy in the Bedroom plumbs the depths of boudoir small talk.
01 January 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.
05 May 1995
The Fragments Project is personal filmmaking at its most immediate — documents of people in the filmmaker's life.
01 January 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.
16 April 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.
20 January 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.
01 January 2007
Utilizing heat sensing imaging technology, scenes of everyday incidents of the city are transformed into glimpses of our world through an alien lens.
14 June 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.
01 February 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.
21 January 2007
Fragments from movies found in an abandoned cinema in Beirut. Retrieved by Mr. Salloum. Assembled by Ms.
01 January 1993
A quartet of crack addicts in Miami sit around, while outside, the biggest hurricane of the century is about to hit.
15 August 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.
18 September 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.
05 July 1994
Peggy Ahwesh re-edits and optically prints a Super 8 stag loop, rarifying the degraded images into an abstract stained-glass mosaic.
01 February 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.
14 September 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.
01 January 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.
22 October 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.
11 November 1995
Futuristic story of Carlos and Ben who fall in love in high school despite the racism and and homophobia.
01 March 2023
A re-staging of Reich’s question, “Am I a Spaceman?”, at a cloudbuster near his laboratory in Rangeley, Maine.
20 January 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 the American social body.
30 October 2021
The summer of 2020 I spent most nights outdoors alone transfixed by the theater of the stars and the dance of the fireflies.
01 January 1998
A fragment from an unfinished project by Peggy Ahwesh.
13 February 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 surgery, and people dressed in bulky headgear navigating virtual spaces.
10 June 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 foibles, follies and crises that are increasingly out of alignment with the forces of nature.
21 February 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.
01 January 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.
07 August 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.
21 February 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.
01 February 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.
01 January 1980
A document of a 1980 gay wedding at Pittsburgh's Le Cyrk club
03 March 1983
Part Two of Peggy Ahwesh's Pittsburgh Trilogy
15 January 1986
Martina plays on her own and with her mother, Jennifer talks, stock footage of flowers is talked over.
01 January 1993
Martina and Sonja, cross-dress in vampire capes and werewolf claws, re-enacting familiar horror tropes.
01 January 2023
The pandemic era of 2020/2021, I spent most nights outdoors alone transfixed by the theater of the stars and the dance of the fireflies.
01 January 2006
"From a series of text videos based on the Spam emails that used to flood my in-box. Vintage, from 2006.
31 December 2007
This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form.
13 February 2009
Writes Ahwesh: "Working through my archive of accumulated video footage, I pretended it was found footage from anonymous sources.
10 October 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.
28 May 2025
Short film by Peggy Ahwesh
01 January 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.
12 July 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.
11 December 2022
An edible indelible organic oneiric mushroom movie made for Bradley Eros on his 70th Birthday!
25 February 2012
Wadena, MN: (population 4,060: town motto “Where the Prairie Meets the Woodands”) was hit by a tornado in June, 2010.
18 April 2026
Three short films about the beauty and mystery of the night sky.
06 November 2025
Through original imagery and footage of airplane flights captured within a mid-2000s 3D flight simulation computer game, "The Wayfinders" addresses notions of power, control, lost histories, displacement, and freedom, especially in times of oppression and war.
06 November 2025
“Qalandia” is made entirely with footage Peggy Ahwesh recorded in the mid-2010s when she and a friend “broke into” the abandoned airfield, which is still under the Israeli government’s control.
30 August 1983
The Pittsburgh Trilogy, pt. 3
