Peggy Ahwesh Movies

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

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

A re-staging of Reich’s question, “Am I a Spaceman?”, at a cloudbuster near his laboratory in Rangeley, Maine. 2) A re-staging of...

Buddy, a young gay man leaves his small-town home in rural Upstate New York to make a new life in New York City.

Part Two of Peggy Ahwesh's Pittsburgh Trilogy

Martina and Sonja, cross-dress in vampire capes and werewolf claws, re-enacting familiar horror tropes. A corresponding soundtrack of stock screams...

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

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

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

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

Like a generation of viewers, I was profoundly affected by Deliverance. But I have always been troubled by the hegemonic structures of gender...

Short film by Peggy Ahwesh

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

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...

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

A mockumentary following the troubled production of Clockmen: The Musical, focusing on a cosplayer-turned-actress who reacts to the stress of the...

An edible indelible organic oneiric mushroom movie made for Bradley Eros on his 70th Birthday!

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

A fragment from an unfinished project by Peggy Ahwesh.

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