Peggy Ahwesh Movies
- 1986
Martina's Playhouse
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Martina plays on her own and with her mother, Jennifer talks, stock footage of flowers is talked over.
- 1996
Trick Film
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Activities at home with Mistress and her naughty pet.
- 2022
Curve the Night Sky
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The summer of 2020 I spent most nights outdoors alone transfixed by the theater of the stars and the dance of the fireflies. My sense of time...
- 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...
- 2019
Kansas Atlas
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"A four-channel video installation featuring original footage shot primarily from a bird’s eye view of the Kansas town known as the...
- 2022
EROS BDAY MUSH.mov
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An edible indelible organic oneiric mushroom movie made for Bradley Eros on his 70th Birthday!
- 2019
Re: The Operation
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"A video installation of four stacked monitors that focuses on two conflicting narratives of the military operation that successfully “took...
- 2000
73 Suspect Words
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73 Suspect Words is a deceptively simple and ultimately chilling meditation on the power of text. Ahwesh succinctly delves into one person's...
- 2019
Border Control
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"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...
- 2015
Lessons of War
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"Starting with YouTube videos made to convey world news through animation, I re-purposed them into short episodes of the Israeli-Gaza conflict of...
- 2016
The Blackest Sea
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"Refashioning the intent of footage lifted from an online Taiwanese news outlet, this cautionary tale is about the inexplicable sea - a poetic tour...
- 2007
The Third Body
The Third Body02007HD
An appropriated film, portraying the arrival of Adam and Eve to an exotic Eden, is intercut with appropriated videos of virtual reality...
- 2007
Beirut Outtakes
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Fragments from movies found in an abandoned cinema in Beirut. Retrieved by Mr. Salloum. Assembled by Ms. Ahwesh.
- 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...
- 2014
Kissing Point
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"The sociopolitical landscape of the West Bank is featured, drifting through a bewildering network of dead ends, voided zones and semi-porous...
- 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...
- 2015
Alluvium
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"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...
- 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....
- 1970
The Ape of Nature
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Investigates memory and the uncanny through the experience of hypnotized subjects who communicate via a glacial and slow storytelling informed by...
- 1970
Dubai Fountain
Dubai Fountain01970HD
"This is footage of the famous fountain at the Burj Khalifa in Dubai that I shot in April, 2010 when I was there for the art fair. The song is Amvaj...