Movies

A fragment from an unfinished project by Peggy Ahwesh.

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

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

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...

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

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

The Pittsburgh Trilogy, pt. 3

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...

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

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...

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

Activities at home with Mistress and her naughty pet.

Short film by Peggy Ahwesh

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

Wadena, MN: (population 4,060: town motto “Where the Prairie Meets the Woodands”) was hit by a tornado in June, 2010. “I...

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

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

"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...

Utilizing heat sensing imaging technology, scenes of everyday incidents of the city are transformed into glimpses of our world through an alien lens....

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