Peggy Ahwesh Movies

  • 2016
    The Blackest Sea

    The Blackest Sea

    The Blackest Sea

    02016HD

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

    The Blackest Sea
  • 1970
    Dubai Fountain

    Dubai Fountain

    Dubai Fountain

    01970HD

    "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...

    Dubai Fountain
  • 2000
    73 Suspect Words

    73 Suspect Words

    73 Suspect Words

    02000HD

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

    73 Suspect Words
  • 2008
    Deliver

    Deliver

    Deliver

    02008HD

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

    Deliver
  • 2005
    Eclipse

    Eclipse

    Eclipse

    72005HD

    This lunar eclipse event of November 2003 is observed, documented, and translated by eye and hand via the light-sensitive medium of Kodachrome film....

    Eclipse
  • 2007
    The Third Body

    The Third Body

    The Third Body

    02007HD

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

    The Third Body
  • 2023
    OR119 Outtakes at the Cloudbuster

    OR119 Outtakes at the Cloudbuster

    OR119 Outtakes at the Cloudbuster

    02023HD

    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...

    OR119 Outtakes at the Cloudbuster
  • 2023
    OR119

    OR119

    OR119

    02023HD

    In this new collaborative work, the legacy of renegade scientist and social thinker Wilhelm Reich gets the musical treatment it has long deserved,...

    OR119
  • 2018
    The Falling Sky

    The Falling Sky

    The Falling Sky

    42018HD

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

    The Falling Sky
  • 2007
    Beirut Outtakes

    Beirut Outtakes

    Beirut Outtakes

    02007HD

    Fragments from movies found in an abandoned cinema in Beirut. Retrieved by Mr. Salloum. Assembled by Ms. Ahwesh.

    Beirut Outtakes
  • 2022
    Curve the Night Sky

    Curve the Night Sky

    Curve the Night Sky

    02022HD

    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...

    Curve the Night Sky
  • 1985
    From Romance to Ritual

    From Romance to Ritual

    From Romance to Ritual

    61985HD

    From Romance to Ritual invokes and inverts the title of the 1920 book by Jessie L. Weston, as it, like the book, draws connections between pagan...

    From Romance to Ritual
  • 2009
    Bethlehem

    Bethlehem

    Bethlehem

    02009HD

    Writes Ahwesh: "Working through my archive of accumulated video footage, I pretended it was found footage from anonymous sources. What began as a...

    Bethlehem
  • 1987
    Doppelganger

    Doppelganger

    Doppelganger

    01987HD

    It's a portrait of my friend Renate, who was born in Berlin and spent her early childhood playing in the rubble after WW2. She tells stories and...

    Doppelganger
  • 2022
    EROS BDAY MUSH.mov

    EROS BDAY MUSH.mov

    EROS BDAY MUSH.mov

    02022HD

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

    EROS BDAY MUSH.mov
  • 2019
    Re: The Operation

    Re: The Operation

    Re: The Operation

    02019HD

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

    Re: The Operation
  • 2015
    Alluvium

    Alluvium

    Alluvium

    02015HD

    "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...

    Alluvium
  • 2019
    Kansas Atlas

    Kansas Atlas

    Kansas Atlas

    02019HD

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

    Kansas Atlas
  • 2019
    Border Control

    Border Control

    Border Control

    02019HD

    "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...

    Border Control
  • 2001
    Heaven's Gate

    Heaven's Gate

    Heaven's Gate

    02001HD

    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...

    Heaven's Gate