Still Voices Short Film Festival

In The Clear Air

Clare Island is an island in the entrance of Clew Bay in Ireland. Famous for being the home of the pirate queen Grace O'Malley, today it has a population of about 160 inhabitants. Few houses, a hostel, two pubs, a primary school and an old lighthouse used as a restaurant: to visit it are mainly trekkers, climbers and explorers by bike.

Director Bio

Miriam Gregorio was born in Milan in 1995. She enrolled at the Civic School of Cinema Luchino Visconti in Milan and attended the three-year course in Multimedia Arts. In 2017 she created Araneomorfi, a video installation on tarantism, a form of hysteric behaviour, popularly believed to result from the bite of a spider, ritual originating in southern Italy. The installation was exhibited at the ARP space - Progressive Research Area of Studio Azzurro.