Pistolary! Films and Videos by Peggy Ahwesh DVD Box Set, 2006, 3:34:42   This 3-disc DVD collection features the work of maverick film and video maker Peggy Ahwesh. The set includes: film and video descriptions; an essay by author and poet Eileen Myles, Pistolary! Films and Videos by Peggy Ahwesh; an essay by Ahwesh herself, Film, Baby; and an in-depth interview with Ahwesh by writer and teacher Scott MacDonald. An artist biography, film/videography and selected bibliography accompany the collection.   Listen to a review of Peggy's work here.

Disc I The Scary Movie   Peggy Ahwesh 10:00 1993   16mm to video Two girls personalize the horror genre with a plot and shot-by-shot 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    Peggy Ahwesh 17:00 2001 Super-8 to video Lara Croft, the virtual girl-doll of the late 20th century, is recast as a triad of her personas: the alien, the orphan, and the clone in this work based on appropriated footage from the game Tomb Raider. Martina's Playhouse   Peggy Ahwesh 20:00 1989 Everything is up for grabs! The girl of the title oscillates between narrator, reader and performer; from role of baby to mother and back. The Star Eaters Peggy Ahwesh 24:00 2003 A short and inconclusive treatise on women and gambling. The allure of risk- taking, the contradictions of excessive behavior, and a penchant for failure combine in this fairy-tale set in the abandoned decay that was once a glamorous Atlantic City. A sentimental education at the seashore off-season. Disc II The Deadman   Peggy Ahwesh 37:00 1990 16mm to video "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." --Jonathan Rosenbaum, "Dubbed and Dubber," Chicago Reader (21 February 1997) Nocturne Peggy Ahwesh 30:00 1998 16mm to video The 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, as witness to the subversive violence of nature, corporeality and desire. Disc III the vision machine Peggy Ahwesh 20:00 1997 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 Peggy Ahwesh 08:00 2001 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. Strange Weather Peggy Ahwesh 50:00 1993 A quartet of crack addicts, absorbed by their life of pure sensation, are holed up inside while the world outside is about to explode.