Peggy Ahwesh Movies

Short film by Peggy Ahwesh

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 Pittsburgh Trilogy, pt. 3

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

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...

“Qalandia” is made entirely with footage Peggy Ahwesh recorded in the mid-2010s when she and a friend “broke into” the...

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

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

Part Two of Peggy Ahwesh's Pittsburgh Trilogy

Activities at home with Mistress and her naughty pet.

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

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

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

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

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

Three short films about the beauty and mystery of the night sky.

The Fragments Project is personal filmmaking at its most immediate — documents of people in the filmmaker's life. Each "fragment" demands the...

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

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

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