Margaret "Peggy" Ahwesh (born 1954 in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania)[1] 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.[2] 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.[3]
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