Peggy Ahwesh Movies

  • 2007
    Beirut Outtakes

    Beirut Outtakes

    Beirut Outtakes

    02007HD

    Fragments from movies found in an abandoned cinema in Beirut. Retrieved by Mr. Salloum. Assembled by Ms. Ahwesh.

    Beirut Outtakes
  • 2007
    Warm Objects

    Warm Objects

    Warm Objects

    02007HD

    Utilizing heat sensing imaging technology, scenes of everyday incidents of the city are transformed into glimpses of our world through an alien lens....

    Warm Objects
  • 1987
    Doppelganger

    Doppelganger

    Doppelganger

    01987HD

    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...

    Doppelganger
  • 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
  • 1986
    Martina's Playhouse

    Martina's Playhouse

    Martina's Playhouse

    71986HD

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

    Martina's Playhouse
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2025
    the (We) Fallen

    the (We) Fallen

    the (We) Fallen

    02025HD

    Short film by Peggy Ahwesh

    the (We) Fallen
  • 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
    The Making of a Superhero Musical

    The Making of a Superhero Musical

    The Making of a Superhero Musical

    02015HD

    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
  • 1983
    Nostalgia for Paradise

    Nostalgia for Paradise

    Nostalgia for Paradise

    01983HD

    The Pittsburgh Trilogy, pt. 3

    Nostalgia for Paradise
  • 2014
    Kissing Point

    Kissing Point

    Kissing Point

    02014HD

    "The sociopolitical landscape of the West Bank is featured, drifting through a bewildering network of dead ends, voided zones and semi-porous...

    Kissing Point
  • 2016
    The Blackest Sea

    The Blackest Sea

    The Blackest Sea

    02016HD

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

    The Blackest Sea
  • 1983
    Para-Normal Intelligence

    Para-Normal Intelligence

    Para-Normal Intelligence

    01983HD

    Part Two of Peggy Ahwesh's Pittsburgh Trilogy

    Para-Normal Intelligence
  • 1989
    Fun Down There

    Fun Down There

    Fun Down There

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

    Fun Down There
  • 1998
    Lies and Excess

    Lies and Excess

    Lies and Excess

    01998HD

    A fragment from an unfinished project by Peggy Ahwesh.

    Lies and Excess
  • 2000
    73 Suspect Words

    73 Suspect Words

    73 Suspect Words

    02000HD

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

    73 Suspect Words
  • 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
  • 1995
    The Second Coming

    The Second Coming

    The Second Coming

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    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
  • 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