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Aug 7, 2019 · In a conversation with VSCO, filmmaker Maegan Houang explains that “ In Full Bloom tells the story of Cecile, an elderly Vietnamese hoarder, whose life is upended when worms open a black hole in her house and threaten to take all her stuff.
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Jun 27, 2019 · Maegan Houang Weaves an Alluringly Surreal Tale of Memory & Loss in Fantasy Short ‘In Full Bloom’. DN alum director Maegan Houang’s In Full Bloom tells a story of memory; an old woman living in her apartment becomes confronted by relics from her past, causing a void to manifest itself in the middle of her floor.
However, it wasn’t until Houang took a crack at “Happy” off of Mitski‘s album Puberty 2 that she really hit it big. Set in the unspecified past, “Happy” tells the story of a wife who suspects that her American husband is cheating on her. Unfortunately, as she soon comes to find out, things are much, much worse than she initially thinks.
As an “agoraphobic hoarder [who] doesn’t leave her house,” Chinh’s unnamed protagonist finds solace in gardening indoors next to her vintage radio and the photos of her loved ones. Though she lives a seemingly lonely life, Chinh’s character is at peace.
Given creative control and $3,000, she directed the video for “Happy” from Mitski’s 2016 album Puberty 2, which involves a 1950s-inspired Asian housewife whose white husband possesses a heinous secret.
Jul 30, 2024 · Photo courtesy of Maegan Houang. Maegan Houang’s work is stunningly transportative and distinguishes her as one of the most exciting up-and-coming filmmakers on the scene. But she didn’t always imagine herself in film.
Jun 26, 2019 · That’s what L.A.-based writer/director Meagan Houang has successfully accomplished with In Full Bloom, marrying a deliberate and specific exploration of a character crippled by loss, to a fantastical hi-concept, allowing her to make explicit the central metaphor of her story.
