Peggy Ahwesh Movies

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

Here Ahwesh's heterogeneous textual approach comes to the fore, as she juxtaposes narrative, faux documentary, comedic and "serious" footage, and...

"From a series of text videos based on the Spam emails that used to flood my in-box. Vintage, from 2006."

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

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

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

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

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

Activities at home with Mistress and her naughty pet.

"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

Through original imagery and footage of airplane flights captured within a mid-2000s 3D flight simulation computer game, "The Wayfinders" addresses...

The Pittsburgh Trilogy, pt. 3

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

A fragment from an unfinished project by Peggy Ahwesh.

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...

"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...

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

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

Part Two of Peggy Ahwesh's Pittsburgh Trilogy