Peggy Ahwesh Movies
- 2012
Wadena
Wadena02012HD
Wadena, MN: (population 4,060: town motto “Where the Prairie Meets the Woodands”) was hit by a tornado in June, 2010. “I...
- 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.
- 2011
My Cat gets an Aura Reading
My Cat gets an Aura Reading02011HD
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...
- 2007
Warm Objects
Warm Objects02007HD
Utilizing heat sensing imaging technology, scenes of everyday incidents of the city are transformed into glimpses of our world through an alien lens....
- 2023
OR119 Outtakes at the Cloudbuster
OR119 Outtakes at the Cloudbuster02023HD
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...
- 1987
Doppelganger
Doppelganger01987HD
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
The Third Body02007HD
An appropriated film, portraying the arrival of Adam and Eve to an exotic Eden, is intercut with appropriated videos of virtual reality...
- 2021
Curve the Night Sky
Curve the Night Sky02021HD
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...
- 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...
- 2006
Omedium
Omedium02006HD
"From a series of text videos based on the Spam emails that used to flood my in-box. Vintage, from 2006."
- 2023
OR119
OR11902023HD
In this new collaborative work, the legacy of renegade scientist and social thinker Wilhelm Reich gets the musical treatment it has long deserved,...
- 1983
Nostalgia for Paradise
Nostalgia for Paradise01983HD
The Pittsburgh Trilogy, pt. 3
- 1983
Para-Normal Intelligence
Para-Normal Intelligence01983HD
Part Two of Peggy Ahwesh's Pittsburgh Trilogy
- 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...
- 2015
Lessons of War
Lessons of War02015HD
"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
Dubai Fountain
Dubai Fountain01970HD
"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...
- 2022
Curve the Night Sky
Curve the Night Sky02022HD
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...