Peggy Ahwesh is an American avant-garde filmmaker and experimental video artist. She received her B.F.A. from Antioch College

Antioch College

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. Ahwesh's work has been shown at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

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, New York, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

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, San Francisco, the Balie Theater, Amsterdam, Filmmuseum, Frankfurt; the Museu d'Art Contemporani Barcelona (MACBA), Barcelona, the Wexner Center for the Arts

Wexner Center for the Arts

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, Columbus, Ohio, the Whitney Museum of American Art

Whitney Museum of American Art

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, 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

Alpert Awards in the Arts

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, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

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 Fellow

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ship, and grants from the Jerome Foundation, the Creative Capital Foundation, and the New York State Council on the Arts

New York State Council on the Arts

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. She teaches at Bard College

Bard College

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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

• Biography at Electronic Arts Intermix
• Interview, in Millennium Film Journal (MFJ No. 39/40, Winter 2003: Hidden Currents)
• Peggy Ahwesh, by John David Rhodes, in Senses of Cinema
• Peggy Ahwesh at the Internet Movie Database
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• Peggy Ahwesh at the Video Data Bank
• Peggy Ahwesh at FELIX