Peggy Ahwesh Movies

Investigates memory and the uncanny through the experience of hypnotized subjects who communicate via a glacial and slow storytelling informed by...

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

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...

Martina plays on her own and with her mother, Jennifer talks, stock footage of flowers is talked over.

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

Buddy, a young gay man leaves his small-town home in rural Upstate New York to make a new life in New York City.

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

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

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

"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...

The Pittsburgh Trilogy, pt. 3

It begins with footage from a stylish old potboiler about an isolated convent, whose tale of passions leashed and unleashed provides the leitmotif...

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

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...

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

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

A fragment from an unfinished project by Peggy Ahwesh.

In this new collaborative work, the legacy of renegade scientist and social thinker Wilhelm Reich gets the musical treatment it has long deserved,...

Nocturne is a psychological horror film built on the conflicts of a woman tortured by the ambiguity between reality and illusion, dream and desire....

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...