Peggy Ahwesh

Peggy Ahwesh (born 1954 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) 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.

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

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

External links

* [http://www.eai.org/eai/artistTitles.htm?id=5768 Biography at Electronic Arts Intermix]
* [http://mfj-online.org/journalPages/MFJ39/macdonaldpage.html Interview] , in Millennium Film Journal (MFJ No. 39/40, Winter 2003: Hidden Currents)
* [http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/03/ahwesh.html Peggy Ahwesh, by John David Rhodes] , in Senses of Cinema
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0014411/ Peggy Ahwesh] at the Internet Movie Database
* [http://www.vdb.org/smackn.acgi$artistdetail?AHWESHP Peggy Ahwesh] at the [http://www.vdb.org Video Data Bank]
* [http://www.e-felix.org/artists/ahwesh.html Peggy Ahwesh] at [http://www.e-felix.org/info.html FELIX]