Peggy Ahwesh Movies

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...

"From a series of text videos based on the Spam emails that used to flood my in-box. Vintage, from 2006."

An appropriated film, portraying the arrival of Adam and Eve to an exotic Eden, is intercut with appropriated videos of virtual reality...

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

The Fragments Project is personal filmmaking at its most immediate — documents of people in the filmmaker's life. Each "fragment" demands the...

73 Suspect Words is a deceptively simple and ultimately chilling meditation on the power of text. Ahwesh succinctly delves into one person's...

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...

The Pittsburgh Trilogy, pt. 3

"A video installation of four stacked monitors that focuses on two conflicting narratives of the military operation that successfully “took...

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

"The sociopolitical landscape of the West Bank is featured, drifting through a bewildering network of dead ends, voided zones and semi-porous...

"A four-channel video installation featuring original footage shot primarily from a bird’s eye view of the Kansas town known as the...

A film about the socialization process and repression. My footage of family and friends intercut with Romero’s Dawn of the Dead and...

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

Wadena, MN: (population 4,060: town motto “Where the Prairie Meets the Woodands”) was hit by a tornado in June, 2010. “I...

Like a generation of viewers, I was profoundly affected by Deliverance. But I have always been troubled by the hegemonic structures of gender...

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...