Peggy Ahwesh Movies
- 1998
Nocturne
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Nocturne is a psychological horror film built on the conflicts of a woman tortured by the ambiguity between reality and illusion, dream and desire....
- 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...
- 2019
Kansas Atlas
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"A four-channel video installation featuring original footage shot primarily from a bird’s eye view of the Kansas town known as the...
- 2015
Alluvium
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"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...
- 1983
Nostalgia for Paradise
Nostalgia for Paradise01983HD
The Pittsburgh Trilogy, pt. 3
- 2022
Curve the Night Sky
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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...
- 2011
My Cat gets an Aura Reading
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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...
- 1995
The Fragments Project
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The Fragments Project is personal filmmaking at its most immediate — documents of people in the filmmaker's life. Each "fragment" demands the...
- 2019
Re: The Operation
Re: The Operation02019HD
"A video installation of four stacked monitors that focuses on two conflicting narratives of the military operation that successfully “took...
- 2012
Notes From the Lower East Side
Notes From the Lower East Side02012HD
An experimental documentary filmed over a two-year period, NOTES FROM THE LOWER EAST SIDE includes such personalities as Clayton Patterson,...
- 1985
From Romance to Ritual
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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...
- 2007
Beirut Outtakes
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Fragments from movies found in an abandoned cinema in Beirut. Retrieved by Mr. Salloum. Assembled by Ms. Ahwesh.
- 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...
- 1986
Martina's Playhouse
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Martina plays on her own and with her mother, Jennifer talks, stock footage of flowers is talked over.