Peggy Ahwesh Movies

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...

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

My cat Claude was recovering from a car accident that nearly killed him and I thought it would be interesting to have his aura read. I wanted to see...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Pittsburgh Trilogy, pt. 3

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

"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...

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

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 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...

A fragment from an unfinished project by Peggy Ahwesh.

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

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

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