Peggy AHWESH

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Peggy Ahwesh
ARTIST BIO & EXHIBITIONS

Over the last twenty years, Peggy Ahwesh has produced one of the most heterogeneous bodies of work in the field of experimental film and video. A true bricoleur, her tools include narrative and documentary styles, improvised performance and scripted dialogue, synch-sound film, found footage, digital animation, and crude Pixelvision video. The work is primarily an investigation cultural identity and the role of the subject, in various genres.
Ahwesh work with subversively amateur forms, and also a discourse that yielded traditionally female-gendered themes like home and family, relationships, and confessions, which she appropriated as scenarios. Her practice insists on political and social topicality, handled with theoretical and formal rigor, with a nod to popular culture forms. She draws the audience into the world and traditions of avant-garde film and video, where, as she has remarked, "there's nothing to prove and no money to make," only the pleasures of the text.

Ahwesh was the subject of a midcareer retrospective, Girls Beware! at the Whitney Museum (1997). Other retrospectives include: Filmmuseum, Brussels, Belgium; Carpenter Center at Harvard University; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh and Cinematexas 6, Austin, Texas. She has screened work in the Whitney Biennial (1991, 1995, 2002); New York Film Festival (1998, 2007); Flaherty Film Seminar (20

11 FILMS EN DISTRIBUTION

THE FALLING SKY
2017 / HD / couleur / sonore / simple écran / 9' 30 / 43 €
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THE BLACKEST SEA
2016 / HD / couleur / sonore / simple écran / 9' 00 / 43 €
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LESSONS OF WAR
2015 / HD / couleur / sonore / simple écran / 6' 00 / 42 €
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BETHLEHEM
2009 / Vidéo / couleur / sonore / simple écran / 8' 30 / 42 €
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BEIRUT OUTTAKES
2007 / Vidéo / couleur / sonore / simple écran / 7' 30 / 41 €
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THE THIRD BODY
2007 / Vidéo / couleur / sonore / simple écran / 8' 45 / 42 €
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WARM OBJECTS
2007 / Vidéo / couleur / silencieux / simple écran / 6' 00 / 42 €
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SHE PUPPET
2001 / Jeu vidéo / couleur / sonore / simple écran / 15' 00 / 50 €
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THE VISION MACHINE
1997 / 16mm / coul-n&b / sonore / simple écran / 20' 00 / 88 €
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THE COLOR OF LOVE
1994 / 16mm / couleur / sonore / simple écran / 10' 00 / 45 €
distribution : 16mm
STRANGE WEATHER
1993 / Pixelvision / n&b / sonore / simple écran / 50' 00 / 174 €
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