Peggy Ahwesh Movies

Part Two of Peggy Ahwesh's Pittsburgh Trilogy

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

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

"Starting with YouTube videos made to convey world news through animation, I re-purposed them into short episodes of the Israeli-Gaza conflict of...

From Romance to Ritual invokes and inverts the title of the 1920 book by Jessie L. Weston, as it, like the book, draws connections between pagan...

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

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

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...

Short film by Peggy Ahwesh

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...

A document of a 1980 gay wedding at Pittsburgh's Le Cyrk club

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

A fragment from an unfinished project by Peggy Ahwesh.

A short and inconclusive treatise on women and gambling. The allure of risk taking, the contradictions of excessive behavior and a penchant for...

"A video installation of four stacked monitors that focuses on two conflicting narratives of the military operation that successfully “took...

"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...

This film is depicts early lesbian sexuality, using reenacted scenes from the experience of a 12-year old girl as the platform for a meditation on...

Wadena, MN: (population 4,060: town motto “Where the Prairie Meets the Woodands”) was hit by a tornado in June, 2010. “I...

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