Peggy Ahwesh

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 ...

Peggy Ahwesh, H.D., 2005, still from video with sound, 1 min. 30 sec.

Caldwell’s pulp storytelling, proto-feminist stance and unabashed social dramatization of his characters are a distinct vision of the ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

The Pittsburgh Trilogy, pt. 3

Part Two of Peggy Ahwesh’s Pittsburgh Trilogy

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