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ARACHNE

An agoraphobic woman is haunted by strange visions in her claustrophobic subterranean apartment. As the outside world becomes stranger the spiders on her mouldering walls descend.

  • Tommy Creagh
    Director
    Acheron, Land of Winter
  • Tommy Creagh
    Writer
    Acheron, Land of Winter, A War Poem
  • Camila Reyes
    Writer
    Eve
  • Rosie Williams
    Producer
  • Camila Reyes
    Key Cast
    "Aracne"
  • Inge Ladd
    Key Cast
    "The Grey Woman"
  • Conor Tobin
    Cinematographer
    Masks, Acheron
  • Jess Beechey
    Sound Design
  • Charlie Findlay
    Composer
  • Sebastien Perry
    Editor
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    ARACNE
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    Thriller, Horror, Psychological, Silent, Art House, Experimental
  • Runtime:
    11 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    October 24, 2023
  • Production Budget:
    3,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Spain
  • Country of Filming:
    Spain
  • Language:
    Spanish
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    4:3
  • Film Color:
    Black & White
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Tommy Creagh

Tommy Creagh is an award winning British-Irish writer & director with a passion for expressive, lyrical, storytelling with great performances at the centre. He graduated from Bristol UWE in 2017 with a 1st Class Honours Degree in Filmmaking, and since then he has been making films, music videos, and theatre. His films have won several awards and been shown at over 50 film festivals around the world, and his music videos have received over 100K hits to date. His most notable films are Father of the Man (Winner of Best Short Film at the Vienna Independent Film Festival), Land of Winter (Winner of Best Irish Short at the Dublin International Short Film & Music Festival & Best Young Talent at the New Renaissance Film Festival) & Acheron (Winner of Best Director at the Shadow Film Festival and Best Actor at the Dublin International Short Film & Music Festival)

His sixth short film 'ARACNE' is going out to film festivals now, as is 'A War Poem' which he co-wrote, starring Freddie Fox. He has four feature films in development and is in the early stages of writing a long form historical drama with classicist and filmmaker Herbert Golder. He also produces films for the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation and is the Creative Director of the Bloomsday Film Festival. In 2020 he set up the independent company Æ FILMS with long time collaborator Conor Tobin.

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Director Statement

Loosely based on the Greek Myth of the same name, Arachne interweaves Mythology and Psychology in a modern thriller exploring the horrors of the nocturnal world as well as themes like solipsism, dissociation, and metamorphosis. It is a film about the extreme edges of anxiety and the metamorphic effect that can have on the psyche.

It is a film that finds itself very much within the European art cinema tradition as well as the horror/ thriller genre.