Peggy Ahwesh Filmes
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 1985
From Romance to Ritual
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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...
- 1993
Strange Weather
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A quartet of crack addicts, absorbed by their life of pure sensation, are holed up inside while the world outside is about to explode.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- 2005
H.D.
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Peggy Ahwesh, H.D., 2005, still from video with sound, 1 min. 30 sec.
- 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
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Caldwell's pulp storytelling, proto-feminist stance and unabashed social dramatization of his characters are a distinct vision of the condition 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...
- 1993
Philosophy in the Bedroom
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A home-movie paean to the Marquis de Sade, Philosophy in the Bedroom plumbs the depths of boudoir small talk. In the first part, a newly-acquainted...
- 1991
Age 12: Love with a Little L
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This film is depicts early lesbian sexuality, using reenacted scenes from the experience of a 12-year old girl as the platform for a meditation on...
- 1970
Dubai Fountain
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"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...
- 1987
Doppelganger
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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...
- 2004
The Star Eaters
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A short and inconclusive treatise on women and gambling. The allure of risk taking, the contradictions of excessive behavior and a penchant for...
- 2023
OR119 Outtakes at the Cloudbuster
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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...