Peggy Ahwesh Movies

  • 2025
    The Wayfinders

    The Wayfinders

    The Wayfinders

    02025HD

    Through original imagery and footage of airplane flights captured within a mid-2000s 3D flight simulation computer game, "The Wayfinders" addresses...

    The Wayfinders
  • 2001
    She Puppet

    She Puppet

    She Puppet

    6.32001HD

    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...

    She Puppet
  • 1993
    Philosophy in the Bedroom

    Philosophy in the Bedroom

    Philosophy in the Bedroom

    01993HD

    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...

    Philosophy in the Bedroom
  • 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
  • 1989
    Fill Thy Crack with Whiteness

    Fill Thy Crack with Whiteness

    Fill Thy Crack with Whiteness

    01989HD

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

    Fill Thy Crack with Whiteness
  • 1997
    The Vision Machine

    The Vision Machine

    The Vision Machine

    01997HD

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

    The Vision Machine
  • 2001
    Heaven's Gate

    Heaven's Gate

    Heaven's Gate

    02001HD

    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...

    Heaven's Gate
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1996
    Trick Film

    Trick Film

    Trick Film

    21996HD

    Activities at home with Mistress and her naughty pet.

    Trick Film
  • 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
  • 2005
    H.D.

    H.D.

    H.D.

    02005HD

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

    H.D.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2025
    the (We) Fallen

    the (We) Fallen

    the (We) Fallen

    02025HD

    Short film by Peggy Ahwesh

    the (We) Fallen
  • 1987
    Rainy Season

    Rainy Season

    Rainy Season

    01987HD

    Thanksgiving in California is the setting in which the viewer experiences "the depression inherent to festive occasions. There were many things...

    Rainy Season
  • 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
  • 1970
    Dubai Fountain

    Dubai Fountain

    Dubai Fountain

    01970HD

    "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...

    Dubai Fountain
  • 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
  • 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