Peggy Ahwesh(USA) Girls Beware! “The Fleisher cartoon Bimbo’s Initiation and the 1920s porn film Getting his Goat treat the subjects of curiosity and anxiety over sexuality and social membership with humor and those themes are accentuated in The Deadman. As much as that film illustrates desire and the variety of metaphors inside Martina’s Playhouse, it is The Deadman (1990), adapted with Keith Sanborn from a short story by Bataille, that makes it real. I was interested in making a movie about sexuality that had sex in it, that was the bottom line, that represented the sex act with a woman but wasn’t about objectification of the woman in traditional terms.” Peggy Ahwesh Getting His Goat - Anonymous 192?, video, 12 min. Bimbo’s Initiation - Fleischer Brothers 1931, 16 mm, 5 min. The Deadman - Peggy Ahwesh and Keith Sanborn 1990, 16 mm, 40 min.