Strange Weather
Chicago Filmmakers
“The fascinating thing about this 50-minute documentary by Peggy Ahwesh and Margie Strosser–about the everyday lives of four Miami crackheads, three women and a man–is the offbeat intimacy
The fascinating thing about this 50-minute documentary by Peggy Ahwesh and Margie Strosser–about the everyday lives of four Miami crackheads, three women and a man–is the offbeat intimacy they create with their imaginative and resourceful use of a Fisher-Price Pixelvision camera. Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader February 18, 1994
The crackheads are mainly glimpsed goofing off, talking about themselves, and trying to coax money out of family and friends during a severe hurricane. On the same program, Ahwesh’s short film From Romance to Ritual (1985), a personal documentary involving travels and friends in England as well as some ancient history.