Peggy Ahwesh Movies
- 2007
365 Day Project
365 Day Project02007HD
This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007...
- 1989
Fun Down There
Fun Down There61989HD
Buddy, a young gay man leaves his small-town home in rural Upstate New York to make a new life in New York City.
- 1993
The Scary Movie
The Scary Movie6.61993HD
Martina and Sonja, cross-dress in vampire capes and werewolf claws, re-enacting familiar horror tropes. A corresponding soundtrack of stock screams...
- 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...
- 1994
The Color of Love
The Color of Love6.11994HD
Peggy Ahwesh re-edits and optically prints a Super 8 stag loop, rarifying the degraded images into an abstract stained-glass mosaic.From a clumsy and...
- 1989
The Deadman
The Deadman4.31989HD
Made in collaboration with Keith Sanborn, The Deadman is based on a story by Bataille, charting "the adventures of a near-naked heroine who sets in...
- 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,...
- 1995
The Second Coming
The Second Coming3.81995HD
Futuristic story of Carlos and Ben who fall in love in high school despite the racism and and homophobia. When Fundamentalist forces threaten to take...
- 1993
The Genius
The Genius51993HD
A ramshackle underground SF satire set and shot in the self-absorbed art world of lower Manhattan, written, produced, and directed by Joe Gibbons,...
- 2005
Eclipse
Eclipse72005HD
This lunar eclipse event of November 2003 is observed, documented, and translated by eye and hand via the light-sensitive medium of Kodachrome film....
- 1986
Martina's Playhouse
Martina's Playhouse71986HD
Martina plays on her own and with her mother, Jennifer talks, stock footage of flowers is talked over.
- 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...
- 1998
Nocturne
Nocturne41998HD
Nocturne is a psychological horror film built on the conflicts of a woman tortured by the ambiguity between reality and illusion, dream and desire....
- 1993
Strange Weather
Strange Weather01993HD
A quartet of crack addicts, absorbed by their life of pure sensation, are holed up inside while the world outside is about to explode.
- 1987
Rainy Season
Rainy Season01987HD
Thanksgiving in California is the setting in which the viewer experiences "the depression inherent to festive occasions. There were many things...
- 2015
The Making of a Superhero Musical
The Making of a Superhero Musical02015HD
A mockumentary following the troubled production of Clockmen: The Musical, focusing on a cosplayer-turned-actress who reacts to the stress of the...
- 2001
She Puppet
She Puppet6.32001HD
Lara Croft, the virtual girl-doll of the late 20th century, is recast as a triad of her personas: the alien, the orphan, and the clone in this work...
- 2009
Bethlehem
Bethlehem02009HD
Writes Ahwesh: "Working through my archive of accumulated video footage, I pretended it was found footage from anonymous sources. What began as a...
- 1985
From Romance to Ritual
From Romance to Ritual61985HD
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...
- 2018
The Falling Sky
The Falling Sky42018HD
Refashioning the original intention of footage lifted from an online animated news outlet, The Falling Sky is a cautionary tale about the...