Peggy Ahwesh, USA The Star Eaters 2003, USA 24’00’’

"I dreamed that I floated at will in a great ether and I saw this world floating also not far off. But diminished to the size of an apple. Then an angel took it in its hand and brought it to me and said: This thou must eat and I ate the world". "The Star Eaters" is a short and inconclusive treatise on women and gambling. A sentimental education at the seashore off-season.

b. in USA. Makes films and music. Ahwesh had a mid-career retrospective in the New American Film & Video Series of the Whitney Museum called Girls Beware! (1997) and was featured in the epic program "Big As Life: A History of American 8mm Films" at MoMA (1997-98). Ahwesh currently teaches media production and history at Bard College and has taught at Brown University, Center for Modern Culture and Media and the San Francisco Art Institute, Film Department.