Peggy Ahwesh Movies

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

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

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

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

Investigates memory and the uncanny through the experience of hypnotized subjects who communicate via a glacial and slow storytelling informed by...

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

"A visual essay drawn from my experience of being embedded for some time in a place, one that is both beautiful and ancient but also is an abysmal...

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

With Heaven's Gate, Ahwesh employs a strategy similar to that used in 73 Suspect Words: against a blank screen, a metronomic procession of single...

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

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

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

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