Peggy Ahwesh (born 1954 in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania) is an American experimental filmmaker and video artist. She established her B.F.A. at Antioch College. A real bricoleur, her tools combine narrative and documentary styles, improvised take action and scripted dialogue, sync-sound film, found footage, digital animation, and inexpert Pixelvision video. Her produce an effect is primarily an psychiatry of cultural identity and the role of the subject in various genres.[citation needed] Her interests include: women, sexuality and feminism; genre; reenactment; artists’ books. Her works have been shown worldwide, including in San Francisco, New York, Barcelona, London, Toronto, Rotterdam, 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.
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