Peggy Ahwesh Movies

  • 2007
    365 Day Project

    365 Day Project

    365 Day Project

    102007HD

    This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007...

    365 Day Project
  • 2001
    She Puppet

    She Puppet

    She Puppet

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    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
  • 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
  • 1998
    Lies and Excess

    Lies and Excess

    Lies and Excess

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    A fragment from an unfinished project by Peggy Ahwesh.

    Lies and Excess
  • 1987
    Damned If You Don't

    Damned If You Don't

    Damned If You Don't

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

    Damned If You Don't
  • 1993
    Philosophy in the Bedroom

    Philosophy in the Bedroom

    Philosophy in the Bedroom

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    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
  • 1989
    The Deadman

    The Deadman

    The Deadman

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    Made in collaboration with Keith Sanborn, The Deadman is based on a story by Bataille, charting "the adventures of a near-naked heroine who sets in...

    The Deadman
  • 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
  • 2015
    The Making of a Superhero Musical

    The Making of a Superhero Musical

    The Making of a Superhero Musical

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    A mockumentary following the troubled production of Clockmen: The Musical, focusing on a cosplayer-turned-actress who reacts to the stress of the...

    The Making of a Superhero Musical
  • 2005
    Eclipse

    Eclipse

    Eclipse

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    This lunar eclipse event of November 2003 is observed, documented, and translated by eye and hand via the light-sensitive medium of Kodachrome film....

    Eclipse
  • 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
  • 1995
    The Second Coming

    The Second Coming

    The Second Coming

    3.31995HD

    Futuristic story of Carlos and Ben who fall in love in high school despite the racism and and homophobia. When Fundamentalist forces threaten to take...

    The Second Coming
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1970
    The Ape of Nature

    The Ape of Nature

    The Ape of Nature

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    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
  • 1993
    The Genius

    The Genius

    The Genius

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    A ramshackle underground SF satire set and shot in the self-absorbed art world of lower Manhattan, written, produced, and directed by Joe Gibbons,...

    The Genius
  • 1983
    Para-Normal Intelligence

    Para-Normal Intelligence

    Para-Normal Intelligence

    01983HD

    Part Two of Peggy Ahwesh's Pittsburgh Trilogy

    Para-Normal Intelligence
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2009
    Bethlehem

    Bethlehem

    Bethlehem

    02009HD

    Writes Ahwesh: "Working through my archive of accumulated video footage, I pretended it was found footage from anonymous sources. What began as a...

    Bethlehem