With Heaven's Gate, Peggy Ahwesh employs a strategy similar to that used in her video 73 Suspect Words: against a blank screen, a metronomic procession of single words unfolds, gradually building into a cool, minimal portrait of the apocalyptic paranoia that runs through the US-American social body. While 73 Suspect Words appropriated text from the writings of Theodore Kaczynski, aka the “Unabomber,” Heaven's Gate takes up meta tags from the website of the eponymous cult organization, whose millenarian beliefs in extraterrestrial contact led to their 1997 mass suicide.