- Description:
- DVD - Region free. viewing copy. 3 videodiscs of 3.
color and b/w.
fullscreen. sound.
- Notes:
- Supplemental materials include booklet with interviews and essays by Ahwesh, Scott Macdonald and Eileen Myles.
Titles
+ Scary Movie, The
- Director:
- Ahwesh, Peggy
- Running Time:
- Short. 10 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1993
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Female Directors
- Notes:
- Two girls personalize the horror genre with a plot and structure of their own design, reveling in their ability to reproduce the tropes of horror while, at the same time, taking control of its meaning.
+ She Puppet
- Director:
- Ahwesh, Peggy
- Running Time:
- Short. 17 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 2001
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Female Directors
- Notes:
- Tomb Raider character Lara Croft is recast as a triad of her personas: the alien, the orphan, and the clone.
+ Martina’s Playhouse
- Director:
- Ahwesh, Peggy
- Running Time:
- Short. 20 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1989
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Female Directors
- Notes:
- A girl oscillates between narrator, reader and performer; from role of baby to mother and back.
+ Star Eaters, The
- Director:
- Ahwesh, Peggy
- Running Time:
- Short. 24 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 2003
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Female Directors
- Notes:
- A short and inconclusive treatise on women and gambling.
+ Nocturne
- Director:
- Ahwesh, Peggy
- Running Time:
- Short. 30 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1998
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Female Directors
- Notes:
- A woman has perhaps murdered her lover and is living in an unstable world when he returns to her at night, in her dreams and into her arms.
+ Vision Machine, The
- Director:
- Ahwesh, Peggy
- Running Time:
- Short. 20 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color and b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1997
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Female Directors
- Notes:
- The spinning disks of Duchamp and the sex jokes of Bunuel collide in this essay about the feminine speaking subject, her wit, and its relation to her unconscious.
+ 73 Suspect Words & Heaven’s Gate
- Director:
- Ahwesh, Peggy
- Running Time:
- Short. 8 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 2001
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Female Directors
- Notes:
- Two text videos from a series that distills to a poetic and symbolic core, a variety of texts, source code, search results, and/or coded messages from the unruly databases that glut the net.
+ Deadman, The
- Director:
- Ahwesh, Peggy; Sanborn, Keith
- Running Time:
- Short. 37 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1990
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Female Directors
- Notes:
- Charting the adventures of a near-naked heroine who sets in motion a scabrous free-form orgy before returning to the house to die, this film combines elegance, raunchy defilement and barbaric splendor.
+ Strange Weather
- Director:
- Ahwesh, Peggy; Strosser, Margie
- Running Time:
- Short. 50 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1993
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Female Directors
- Notes:
- A quartet of crack addicts, absorbed by their life of pure sensation, are holed up inside while the world outside is about to explode.