Peggy Ahwesh Movies

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

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

"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...

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

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...

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

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

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

A fragment from an unfinished project by Peggy Ahwesh.

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

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

Part Two of Peggy Ahwesh's Pittsburgh Trilogy