Peggy Ahwesh Movies
- 2016
The Blackest Sea
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"Refashioning the intent of footage lifted from an online Taiwanese news outlet, this cautionary tale is about the inexplicable sea - a poetic tour...
- 1998
Lies and Excess
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A fragment from an unfinished project by Peggy Ahwesh.
- 1993
Philosophy in the Bedroom
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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...
- 2023
OR119
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In this new collaborative work, the legacy of renegade scientist and social thinker Wilhelm Reich gets the musical treatment it has long deserved,...
- 1987
Doppelganger
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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...
- 2007
The Third Body
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An appropriated film, portraying the arrival of Adam and Eve to an exotic Eden, is intercut with appropriated videos of virtual reality...
- 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...
- 1980
Le Cyrk Wedding
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A document of a 1980 gay wedding at Pittsburgh's Le Cyrk club
- 1983
Nostalgia for Paradise
Nostalgia for Paradise01983HD
The Pittsburgh Trilogy, pt. 3
- 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
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"A video installation of four stacked monitors that focuses on two conflicting narratives of the military operation that successfully “took...
- 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...
- 2000
73 Suspect Words
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73 Suspect Words is a deceptively simple and ultimately chilling meditation on the power of text. Ahwesh succinctly delves into one person's...
- 2007
Observando el cielo
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Seven years of celestial field recordings gathered from the chaos of the cosmos and inscribed onto 16mm film from various locations upon this turning...
- 1970
Dubai Fountain
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"This is footage of the famous fountain at the Burj Khalifa in Dubai that I shot in April, 2010 when I was there for the art fair. The song is Amvaj...
- 2015
Lessons of War
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"Starting with YouTube videos made to convey world news through animation, I re-purposed them into short episodes of the Israeli-Gaza conflict of...
- 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...