Peggy Ahwesh Movies

"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...

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

A document of a 1980 gay wedding at Pittsburgh's Le Cyrk club

The Pittsburgh Trilogy, pt. 3

A fragment from an unfinished project by Peggy Ahwesh.

Here Ahwesh's heterogeneous textual approach comes to the fore, as she juxtaposes narrative, faux documentary, comedic and "serious" footage, and...

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...

The Fragments Project is personal filmmaking at its most immediate — documents of people in the filmmaker's life. Each "fragment" demands the...

Part Two of Peggy Ahwesh's Pittsburgh Trilogy

A film about the socialization process and repression. My footage of family and friends intercut with Romero’s Dawn of the Dead and...

Peggy Ahwesh, H.D., 2005, still from video with sound, 1 min. 30 sec.

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...

With Heaven's Gate, Ahwesh employs a strategy similar to that used in 73 Suspect Words: against a blank screen, a metronomic procession of single...

A music-filled tour of Christmas good cheer overtakes this gastronomically oriented excursion through the winter season of discontent and yuletime...

This film is depicts early lesbian sexuality, using reenacted scenes from the experience of a 12-year old girl as the platform for a meditation on...