Peggy Ahwesh Movies

  • 2023
    The Summer Triangle

    The Summer Triangle

    The Summer Triangle

    02023HD

    The pandemic era of 2020/2021, I spent most nights outdoors alone transfixed by the theater of the stars and the dance of the fireflies. My sense of...

    The Summer Triangle
  • 1994
    The Color of Love

    The Color of Love

    The Color of Love

    6.11994HD

    Peggy Ahwesh re-edits and optically prints a Super 8 stag loop, rarifying the degraded images into an abstract stained-glass mosaic.From a clumsy and...

    The Color of Love
  • 1993
    The Scary Movie

    The Scary Movie

    The Scary Movie

    6.61993HD

    Martina and Sonja, cross-dress in vampire capes and werewolf claws, re-enacting familiar horror tropes. A corresponding soundtrack of stock screams...

    The Scary Movie
  • 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
  • 1983
    Para-Normal Intelligence

    Para-Normal Intelligence

    Para-Normal Intelligence

    01983HD

    Part Two of Peggy Ahwesh's Pittsburgh Trilogy

    Para-Normal Intelligence
  • 2018
    The Falling Sky

    The Falling Sky

    The Falling Sky

    42018HD

    Refashioning the original intention of footage lifted from an online animated news outlet, The Falling Sky is a cautionary tale about the...

    The Falling Sky
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2005
    Eclipse

    Eclipse

    Eclipse

    72005HD

    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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2007
    The Third Body

    The Third Body

    The Third Body

    02007HD

    An appropriated film, portraying the arrival of Adam and Eve to an exotic Eden, is intercut with appropriated videos of virtual reality...

    The Third Body
  • 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
  • 1989
    Fun Down There

    Fun Down There

    Fun Down There

    5.21989HD

    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
  • 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
  • 1987
    Damned If You Don't

    Damned If You Don't

    Damned If You Don't

    4.3891987HD

    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

    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