Peggy Ahwesh

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Peggy Ahwesh (born in Pittsburgh, PA in 1954) is an American avant-garde filmmaker and experimental video artist. She received her B.F.A. from Antioch College. Ahwesh's work has been shown at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, the Balie Theater, Amsterdam, Filmmuseum, Frankfurt; the Museu d'Art Contemporani Barcelona (MACBA), Barcelona, the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and The Museum of Modern Art, New York; her work has been included in the following festivals: New York Film Festival (1993, 1998); Berlin; London; Cairo; Toronto; Rotterdam; and Creteil, France. Her numerous awards include an Alpert Award in the Arts, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, and grants from the Jerome Foundation, the Creative Capital Foundation, and the New York State Council on the Arts. She teaches at Bard College.

[edit] Selected filmography

The Third Body (2008) 9 min, color, video
Warm Objects (2007) 5 min, color, video
Beirut Outtakes (2007) 7 min, video
Dedication (2006) 4 min, color, video
Certain Women, with Bobby Abate, (2004) 72 min, video
The Star Eaters (2003), 24 min, video
She Puppet (2001), 15 min, color, video
Heaven's Gate (2000-01), 3:53 min, b&w, video
73 Suspect Words & Heaven's Gate (1999–2000) 8 min, video
Nocturne (1998) 30 min, b&w, 16 mm film
the vision machine (1997), 20 min, b&w and color, 16 mm film
The Color of Love (1994), 10 min, color, sound, 16 mm film
The Scary Movie (1993), 9 min, b&w, sound, 16 mm film
Strange Weather, with Margie Strosser, (1993) 50 min, video, b&w
Martina's Playhouse (1989), 20 min, color, sound, Super 8 film
The Deadman, with Keith Sanborn, (1990), 39 min, b&w, 16 mm film
I Ride a Pony Named Flame (1988) 5 min, video
Philosophy in the Bedroom (1987) 10 min, Super 8 film
From Romance to Ritual (1985) 10 min, Super 8 film
The Fragments Project (1985-1995), 50 min, color, sound, Super 8 film
Ode to the New Pre-History (1984–1987) 25 min, Super 8 film
Pittsburgh Trilogy (1983) 50 min, Super 8 film

[edit] Selected Bibliography

Blaetz, Robin, ed. Women's Experimental Cinema: Critical Frameworks. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008
Ahwesh, Peggy. "Lara Croft- Tomb Raider." Film Comment July-Aug. 2001: 77
Dargis, Manohla. "On the Deadman." Artforum May 1990: 29-30
Handelman, Michelle. "Women's Studies." Filmmaker Magazine Winter 2002: 12
Hoberman, J. "Attack of the Mutants." The Village Voice 14 Mar. 2000: 115
Lewis, Jon, ed. The New American Cinema. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998: 353-78