Peter von Ziegesar Movies

Wheels/Trails draws inspirations from John Cage’s cut-and-splice sound collage, “Williams Mix,” which he composed using chance...

A particular favorite of mine, this film takes Rimbaud’s words one step further into the arena of “inane refrains and artless...

Daily life in an alien city. This is an early diary film trying to formalize my sojourn in cold, naked Chicago in four chapters, presented as four 78...

Based on the idea of Indonesian shadow puppet plays, which combine popular songs and Hindu mythology with political satire and broad comedy, None...

A cat climbs a screen, men squat on the pavement to gamble behind a 7-11, solarized film warbles in and out. A personal, quiet diary film, portraying...

"...contains a cacophony of visual imagery, taken from personal life and imagination, set to the Mother's of Invention Song which is cynical about...

This is a diary film shot at the same time as my edited sound film, Alaska. The film reflects my awe as I accompanied my sister, Olga, a marine...

In Just Sprouts, my goal was to make a film completely divorced from the camera and from such concerns as composition, lighting, camera placement and...

Twelve years after making the experimental black-and-white 16mm film, Alchemy of the Word, I ran the film through a prototype digital video...

Short documentary by Peter von Ziegesar.

Dedicated to the One Eye Love is a Chaplinesque meditation on silent film, and a rather apocalyptic view of Chicago in the early 1970s. A homeless...

Horseflesh is an artifact of a year spent living on a horse farm in Vermont listening to Charles Mingus and John Coltrane. A meditation on country...

My only scripted dramatic film using actors, heavily influenced by Andy Warhol’s Chelsea Girls, though nowhere near as obscene. A fairly...

Alaska is the visual artifact of a two-week trip, in 1976, to Homer, Alaska, where my sister was marrying the son of a homesteader. Many of the...

"Made at the same time as Koyaanisqatsi, Concern for the City is a very different film. I feel that the sense of place which emerges from the film,...

Diary film by Peter von Ziegesar.

A short documentary by Hali Lee and Peter von Ziegesar.

A History of Dancing visually follows the transmigration of the soul after death, going through several states before reaching a final destination...

An exploration of the consummate American coming-of-age ritual as it is observed in middle America.

Diary film by Peter von Ziegesar.