Peggy Ahwesh

Who is Peggy Ahwesh?

Margaret "Peggy" Ahwesh is a female American avant-garde filmmaker and experimental video artist. She revieved 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.