Peggy Ahwesh Movies

  • 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
  • 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
  • 1996
    Trick Film

    Trick Film

    Trick Film

    21996HD

    Activities at home with Mistress and her naughty pet.

    Trick Film
  • 2019
    Kansas Atlas

    Kansas Atlas

    Kansas Atlas

    02019HD

    "A four-channel video installation featuring original footage shot primarily from a bird’s eye view of the Kansas town known as the...

    Kansas Atlas
  • 2022
    EROS BDAY MUSH.mov

    EROS BDAY MUSH.mov

    EROS BDAY MUSH.mov

    02022HD

    An edible indelible organic oneiric mushroom movie made for Bradley Eros on his 70th Birthday!

    EROS BDAY MUSH.mov
  • 2000
    73 Suspect Words

    73 Suspect Words

    73 Suspect Words

    02000HD

    73 Suspect Words is a deceptively simple and ultimately chilling meditation on the power of text. Ahwesh succinctly delves into one person's...

    73 Suspect Words
  • 2004
    Certain Women

    Certain Women

    Certain Women

    02004HD

    Caldwell's pulp storytelling, proto-feminist stance and unabashed social dramatization of his characters are a distinct vision of the condition of...

    Certain Women
  • 2008
    Deliver

    Deliver

    Deliver

    02008HD

    Like a generation of viewers, I was profoundly affected by Deliverance. But I have always been troubled by the hegemonic structures of gender...

    Deliver
  • 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
  • 2019
    Border Control

    Border Control

    Border Control

    02019HD

    "A four-channel video with four flat screens in a square formation, in which eight prototypes for Trump’s wall stand in line on the San Diego...

    Border Control
  • 2015
    Alluvium

    Alluvium

    Alluvium

    02015HD

    "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...

    Alluvium
  • 2004
    The Star Eaters

    The Star Eaters

    The Star Eaters

    02004HD

    A short and inconclusive treatise on women and gambling. The allure of risk taking, the contradictions of excessive behavior and a penchant for...

    The Star Eaters
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2016
    The Blackest Sea

    The Blackest Sea

    The Blackest Sea

    02016HD

    "Refashioning the intent of footage lifted from an online Taiwanese news outlet, this cautionary tale is about the inexplicable sea - a poetic tour...

    The Blackest Sea
  • 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
  • 2014
    Kissing Point

    Kissing Point

    Kissing Point

    02014HD

    "The sociopolitical landscape of the West Bank is featured, drifting through a bewildering network of dead ends, voided zones and semi-porous...

    Kissing Point
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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