Peggy Ahwesh Movies

  • 2012
    Wadena

    Wadena

    Wadena

    02012HD

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

    Wadena
  • 2007
    Beirut Outtakes

    Beirut Outtakes

    Beirut Outtakes

    02007HD

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

    Beirut Outtakes
  • 2011
    My Cat gets an Aura Reading

    My Cat gets an Aura Reading

    My Cat gets an Aura Reading

    02011HD

    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...

    My Cat gets an Aura Reading
  • 2007
    Warm Objects

    Warm Objects

    Warm Objects

    02007HD

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

    Warm Objects
  • 2023
    OR119 Outtakes at the Cloudbuster

    OR119 Outtakes at the Cloudbuster

    OR119 Outtakes at the Cloudbuster

    02023HD

    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...

    OR119 Outtakes at the Cloudbuster
  • 1987
    Doppelganger

    Doppelganger

    Doppelganger

    01987HD

    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...

    Doppelganger
  • 2007
    The Third Body

    The Third Body

    The Third Body

    02007HD

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

    The Third Body
  • 2021
    Curve the Night Sky

    Curve the Night Sky

    Curve the Night Sky

    02021HD

    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...

    Curve the Night Sky
  • 1970
    The Ape of Nature

    The Ape of Nature

    The Ape of Nature

    01970HD

    Investigates memory and the uncanny through the experience of hypnotized subjects who communicate via a glacial and slow storytelling informed by...

    The Ape of Nature
  • 2006
    Omedium

    Omedium

    Omedium

    02006HD

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

    Omedium
  • 2023
    OR119

    OR119

    OR119

    02023HD

    In this new collaborative work, the legacy of renegade scientist and social thinker Wilhelm Reich gets the musical treatment it has long deserved,...

    OR119
  • 1983
    Nostalgia for Paradise

    Nostalgia for Paradise

    Nostalgia for Paradise

    01983HD

    The Pittsburgh Trilogy, pt. 3

    Nostalgia for Paradise
  • 1983
    Para-Normal Intelligence

    Para-Normal Intelligence

    Para-Normal Intelligence

    01983HD

    Part Two of Peggy Ahwesh's Pittsburgh Trilogy

    Para-Normal Intelligence
  • 2019
    Re: The Operation

    Re: The Operation

    Re: The Operation

    02019HD

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

    Re: The Operation
  • 2015
    Lessons of War

    Lessons of War

    Lessons of War

    02015HD

    "Starting with YouTube videos made to convey world news through animation, I re-purposed them into short episodes of the Israeli-Gaza conflict of...

    Lessons of War
  • 1970
    Dubai Fountain

    Dubai Fountain

    Dubai Fountain

    01970HD

    "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...

    Dubai Fountain
  • 2022
    Curve the Night Sky

    Curve the Night Sky

    Curve the Night Sky

    02022HD

    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...

    Curve the Night Sky