Peggy Ahwesh (born 1954 in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania)[1] is an American experimental filmmaker and video artist.
Her works have been shown worldwide, including in San Francisco, New York, Barcelona, London, Toronto, Rotterdam, and Créteil, France.
[4] Peggy Ahwesh went to Antioch College, where she became enamored with the works of radical artists and filmmakers like Paul Sharits, Tony Conrad, Carolee Schneeman and Joyce Wieland.
Ahwesh claims Romero to be a huge influence on her as he was knowledgeable on race, gender, and independent films.
The three films helped explore Ahwesh's interest in her friends and helped answer the questions of what kind of relationship does one have with a person, what kind of relationship does the camera have with a person, how do you shoot positive and negative space and what is it about people that makes them interesting?
In 2001, Ahwesh took her art to another level by using footage from the game Tomb Raider in her experimental piece She Puppet (2001), which explored female identity and the evolution of technology.