Chung-Wei Huang is an award-winning film director who was raised in a small town in Taiwan and is currently based in Baltimore, Maryland. Her creative work focuses primarily on narrative films and dance for the camera videos. Her thesis film, Midnight Carnival (2018), was premiered at the Asian American International Film Festival. In 2021, her second narrative short film, Buck, premiered at the LA Shorts International Film Festival. Chung-Wei's next short film, Squeegee Boy, supported by the Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund, is currently in film festival submission.
Unseen Majority
Medium: Documentation of unseen mold spores taken from Annapolis
Year: 2022
Details: 41 seconds
Fertile Faces (Self-Portrait)
In ‘Fertile Faces’, participant interacts and contributes to the work with their unseen microorganisms. After taking their Polaroid portraits and collecting samples from their bodies and living environments, I reconstruct their images with the microorganisms they live together. Each person’s unique microbiome transforms their photographs into a new reality. While making the hosts’ microorganisms visible to our eyes with distinct colors and forms, the unseen inhabitants’ interactions and their natural form create a new identity of the artists.
Medium: Mold spores on Polaroid
Year: 2021-Ongoing
Details: 38 seconds
Nazarene Maloney is a young artist who has dedicated herself to making her passion for classical music her career. During her primary and secondary education, Nazarene expressed a deep affection for music; specifically, singing. After earning her Associate’s Degree in Music from Prince George’s Community College, she continued on to Morgan State University where she flourished participating in Opera @ Morgan, with roles as Papagena (W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte) and Maria La O (Ernesto Lecuona's Maria La O).