Peggy Ahwesh Movies

  • 2015
    The Making of a Superhero Musical

    The Making of a Superhero Musical

    The Making of a Superhero Musical

    02015HD

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

    The Making of a Superhero Musical
  • 2012
    Notes From the Lower East Side

    Notes From the Lower East Side

    Notes From the Lower East Side

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    An experimental documentary filmed over a two-year period, NOTES FROM THE LOWER EAST SIDE includes such personalities as Clayton Patterson,...

    Notes From the Lower East Side
  • 1995
    The Second Coming

    The Second Coming

    The Second Coming

    3.81995HD

    Futuristic story of Carlos and Ben who fall in love in high school despite the racism and and homophobia. When Fundamentalist forces threaten to take...

    The Second Coming
  • 1993
    The Genius

    The Genius

    The Genius

    51993HD

    A ramshackle underground SF satire set and shot in the self-absorbed art world of lower Manhattan, written, produced, and directed by Joe Gibbons,...

    The Genius
  • 1993
    The Scary Movie

    The Scary Movie

    The Scary Movie

    6.61993HD

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

    The Scary Movie
  • 1998
    Nocturne

    Nocturne

    Nocturne

    41998HD

    Nocturne is a psychological horror film built on the conflicts of a woman tortured by the ambiguity between reality and illusion, dream and desire....

    Nocturne
  • 2007
    365 Day Project

    365 Day Project

    365 Day Project

    02007HD

    This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007...

    365 Day Project
  • 1989
    The Deadman

    The Deadman

    The Deadman

    4.31989HD

    Made in collaboration with Keith Sanborn, The Deadman is based on a story by Bataille, charting "the adventures of a near-naked heroine who sets in...

    The Deadman
  • 1989
    Fun Down There

    Fun Down There

    Fun Down There

    61989HD

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

    Fun Down There
  • 1994
    The Color of Love

    The Color of Love

    The Color of Love

    6.11994HD

    Peggy Ahwesh re-edits and optically prints a Super 8 stag loop, rarifying the degraded images into an abstract stained-glass mosaic.From a clumsy and...

    The Color of Love
  • 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
  • 1993
    Strange Weather

    Strange Weather

    Strange Weather

    01993HD

    A quartet of crack addicts, absorbed by their life of pure sensation, are holed up inside while the world outside is about to explode.

    Strange Weather
  • 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
  • 2001
    She Puppet

    She Puppet

    She Puppet

    6.32001HD

    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...

    She Puppet
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2021
    Curve the Night Sky

    Curve the Night Sky

    Curve the Night Sky

    02021HD

    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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2011
    My Cat gets an Aura Reading

    My Cat gets an Aura Reading

    My Cat gets an Aura Reading

    02011HD

    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...

    My Cat gets an Aura Reading