Margaret "Peggy" Ahwesh (born 1954 in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania) is an American experimental filmmaker and video artist. She received her B.F.A. at Antioch College. 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. Her work is primarily an investigation cultural identity and the role of the subject in various genres. Her interests include: women, sexuality and feminism; genre; reenactment; artists' books. Her works have been seen around with world in San Francisco, New York, Barcelona, London, Toronto, Rodderdam, and Creteil, France. Starting in 1990, she has taught at Bard College as a Professor of Film and Electronic Arts. Her teaching interests include: experimental media, history of the non-fiction film, and women in film.
Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada
Movies
The Deadman, She Puppet, The Color of Love, Beirut Outtakes, Nocturne, Fun Down There, Lessons of War
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The reason I've never liked narrative is because traditionally narrative film has to have resolution. By the end, you're supposed to be able to figure out why things happened the way they did. And I've always been more into presenting a problem and getting you into an emotional place where you understand the calamity or joy or desire within a person's life. It's like a texture, or a mood, a moment - not this is the story and this is how it turns out.
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