Peggy Ahwesh Movies
- 1989
Fun Down There
Fun Down There61989HD
Buddy, a young gay man leaves his small-town home in rural Upstate New York to make a new life in New York City.
- 1993
The Scary Movie
The Scary Movie6.61993HD
Martina and Sonja, cross-dress in vampire capes and werewolf claws, re-enacting familiar horror tropes. A corresponding soundtrack of stock screams...
- 2007
365 Day Project
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This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007...
- 1994
The Color of Love
The Color of Love6.1251994HD
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...
- 2005
Eclipse
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This lunar eclipse event of November 2003 is observed, documented, and translated by eye and hand via the light-sensitive medium of Kodachrome film....
- 2023
OR119
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In this new collaborative work, the legacy of renegade scientist and social thinker Wilhelm Reich gets the musical treatment it has long deserved,...
- 1995
The Second Coming
The Second Coming3.81995HD
Futuristic story of Carlos and Ben who fall in love in high school despite the racism and and homophobia. When Fundamentalist forces threaten to take...
- 1989
The Deadman
The Deadman4.3331989HD
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...
- 1998
Nocturne
Nocturne41998HD
Nocturne is a psychological horror film built on the conflicts of a woman tortured by the ambiguity between reality and illusion, dream and desire....
- 1993
The Genius
The Genius51993HD
A ramshackle underground SF satire set and shot in the self-absorbed art world of lower Manhattan, written, produced, and directed by Joe Gibbons,...
- 2004
Certain Women
Certain Women02004HD
Caldwell's pulp storytelling, proto-feminist stance and unabashed social dramatization of his characters are a distinct vision of the condition of...
- 2001
Heaven's Gate
Heaven's Gate02001HD
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...
- 2015
The Making of a Superhero Musical
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A mockumentary following the troubled production of Clockmen: The Musical, focusing on a cosplayer-turned-actress who reacts to the stress of the...
- 2001
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...
- 1996
Trick Film
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Activities at home with Mistress and her naughty pet.
- 2007
Warm Objects
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Utilizing heat sensing imaging technology, scenes of everyday incidents of the city are transformed into glimpses of our world through an alien lens....
- 2008
Deliver
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Like a generation of viewers, I was profoundly affected by Deliverance. But I have always been troubled by the hegemonic structures of gender...
- 2009
Bethlehem
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Writes Ahwesh: "Working through my archive of accumulated video footage, I pretended it was found footage from anonymous sources. What began as a...
- 1987
Rainy Season
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Thanksgiving in California is the setting in which the viewer experiences "the depression inherent to festive occasions. There were many things...
- 1986
Martina's Playhouse
Martina's Playhouse71986HD
Martina plays on her own and with her mother, Jennifer talks, stock footage of flowers is talked over.