Clare Langan studied Fine Art at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin where she received a first class honors degree, and with a Fulbright Scholarship, completed a film workshop at New York University in 1992. Her most recent film The Floating World premiered at Kinoderkunst, Munich April 2013 – The jury members were Cindy Sherman, Isaac Julien, Amira Casar and Defne Ayas.