Corey Hughes
Directing
Biography
Corey Hughes is a Baltimore-based filmmaker working across narrative, documentary, and experimental forms. His work has premiered at International Film Festival Rotterdam, Sundance, SXSW, New York Film Festival, CPH:DOX, and Locarno Film Festival, where he was awarded the Pardi di Domani Special Jury Prize for the short film "Armageddon 2." As a cinematographer, his credits include Marnie Ellen Hertzler’s "Crestone" (2020) and Theo Anthony’s "All Light, Everywhere" (2021) which was awarded the Sundance Jury Award for Nonfiction Experimentation and a CinemaEye Honor Nomination for Outstanding Cinematography.
Known For

Filmmaker Theo Anthony offers a far-ranging look at the biases in how people see things, focusing on the recorded image.
All Light, Everywhere

In the desert of Crestone, Colorado, a group of SoundCloud rappers live in solitude, growing weed and making music for the internet. When an old friend arrives to make a movie, reality and fiction begin to blur.
Crestone

The internet in Cuba is very slow. Movies, television, and information are exchanged through a black market system of media distribution via external hard drives known as el paquete semanal.
Armageddon 2

SUBJECT TO REVIEW charts the rise of the instant replay system Hawk-Eye in professional tennis, probing how the technology exposes deeper questions of spectacle, justice, and imperfect human knowledge.
Subject to Review

When given keys to a mansion for the weekend, two friends decide to make a film but end up throwing a huge party and trashing the house. Now they race to get the "money shot" and finish their film to pay for all the damages done.
Money Shot

Tux and Fanny are two friends living together in the forest and these are their adventures!
Tux and Fanny
In The Jungle, playfully and sorrowfully tells the tale of an unreliable narrator in a self imposed exile. Given a grant to study the equivalent of animal cries and whines in jungle flora our heroine has lived for 1, 612 days deep in an unnamed jungle. This jungle serves as an extended metaphor for excessive and continual growth and death and fear and sustenance; a metaphorical space of chaos in which the scientist finds solace and which stands in contrast to the human jungle of 'civilization'.
In The Jungle

A girl enters a guided simulation to ease her growing anxiety. In psychedelic sequences combining scripted scenes, found footage, and AI-generated imagery, Your Final Meditation considers virtual space as a site for technological transcendence.
Your Final Meditation

A security guard in an empty building in a big city finds herself overcome with loneliness. She turns to an unlikely source to find a companion: farmersonly.com -- but quickly realizes that she must make some serious changes.
Dirt Daughter

To describe the world is to create another. A disembodied narrator recounts the life and death of Pliny the Elder, author of the first encyclopedia. Excerpts from Pliny’s "Naturalis Historia," echo between past and present, real and virtual, tracing the evolution of knowledge from written encyclopedias to modern AI algorithms.
Whether the world be finite, and whether there be more than one world...

A slapstick comedy in super slow motion. An unnamed tourist with a leg injury searches for physical and spiritual healing on a week long Carnival cruise vacation from Baltimore to the Bahamas.
Ouchiemongo

Behind the scenes of MY FIRST FILM, Zia Anger’s meta-fiction debut, with in-depth interviews and never-before-seen footage. In this exclusive featurette, director Zia Anger, cinematographer Ashley Connor, and lead actress Odessa Young reflect on the tumultuous journey of making MY FIRST FILM, from the chaotic original production to its rebirth in this new adaptation. Discover the creative challenges, personal insights, and untold stories that shaped this groundbreaking film.
My First Film - Behind the Scenes

Experimental remake of the 1999 Robin Williams feature film comedy “Bicentennial Man”, starring Marcelline as “Nam Nam,” a robot who wanders the earth for 200 years trying to become human so they can die.
200 Nam Nam

A YouTube yoga tutorial. A collapsed body. An expanded view.
My Expanded View

A Florida man records an unboxing video for his YouTube channel.