The Falling Sky

Peggy Ahwesh is an American experimental filmmaker and video artist. Born in 1954 in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, she received her BFA at Antioch College, Ohio. Retrospective exhibitions include: Girls Beware!, Whitney Museum of American Art (1997); Filmmuseum, Brussels; Anthology Film Archives, New York; Peggy’s Playhouse, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University; and others. Her films have screened at Whitney Biennial (1991, 1995, 2002); New York Film Festival (1998, 2007); Flaherty Film Seminar (2003); Pompidou Center (2002, 2004); Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival (2017), and at festivals in Berlin, London, Cairo, Toronto, Rotterdam, and Creteil. Herf film Certain Women (co-directed with Bobby Abate) was an official selection of the Rotterdam International Film Festival and the opening night film at the New York Underground Film Festival (2004). Other films include Martina’s Playhouse (1989), The Deadman (1989, co-directed with Keith Sanborn), Strange Weather (1993), and Nocturne (1998), all in the Museum of Modern Art’s permanent collection. She has received grants from Jerome Foundation and Guggenheim Foundation fellowships, Alpert Award in the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, and Art Matters. She teaches Film and Electronic Art at Bard College, New York.