Directing

Kim Kang-min

Born

1979-11-17 (46)

Known for

Directing

Credits

17 titles

Kim Kang-min is a Korean animation filmmaker based in Los Angeles, California.

Known for

Film credits

Behind the camera

25 Years poster
NR

The boy used to play with, and kill, insects. After 25 years, he even had to kill a big monster. He then gets killed by mysterious being.

25 Years

2021

DEUX REGARDS poster
NR

At the interstice between materiality and immateriality, Direct work on the filmstrip is digitally rendered, creating tension between surface and depth.

DEUX REGARDS

2008

KKUM poster
8.0

My mother's dreams have always been strong premonitions for important moments in my life. I rely on her dreams more than any religion.

KKUM

2020

KKUM poster
8.0

My mother's dreams have always been strong premonitions for important moments in my life. I rely on her dreams more than any religion.

KKUM

2020

Visit poster
4.0

Visit He visits a city. The city already forgot him. The city is still sinking in his dream. The flicking segments of real life and illusion. Only the lighthouse has his memory. But the memory will may be vanished.

Visit

2010

Visit poster
4.0

Visit He visits a city. The city already forgot him. The city is still sinking in his dream. The flicking segments of real life and illusion. Only the lighthouse has his memory. But the memory will may be vanished.

Visit

2010

The Night Wood poster
NR

Firework awakes a forest at night, and the night wood invites us to beautiful place where wood, owl, stream, and giraffe form a wonderful sight. Later, the sun comes up and the night disappears. Animation technique: Scratch on 35mm film. Multi plane

The Night Wood

2008

The Trace of Emotion poster
4.0

The emotion of people easily changes. It is not easy to define what emotion is. We just feel it. To feel emotion is like to observe nature because nature always changes by time, sun, and wind. When we observe nature, the nature tries to say what our emotion is because the nature leaves the trace of emotion.

The Trace of Emotion

2008

The Trace of Emotion poster
4.0

The emotion of people easily changes. It is not easy to define what emotion is. We just feel it. To feel emotion is like to observe nature because nature always changes by time, sun, and wind. When we observe nature, the nature tries to say what our emotion is because the nature leaves the trace of emotion.

The Trace of Emotion

2008

Birthmark poster
5.3

A father and a son both have the same big birthmark on their butt. Believing that the two birthmarks are connected, the son scrubs his father's birthmark to remove it—but he just can't get rid of it.

Birthmark

2018

Birthmark poster
5.3

A father and a son both have the same big birthmark on their butt. Believing that the two birthmarks are connected, the son scrubs his father's birthmark to remove it—but he just can't get rid of it.

Birthmark

2018

38-39°C poster
6.0

A man enters an old public bathhouse and dream of his father while under the spell of the elevated temperatures.

38-39°C

2011

38-39°C poster
6.0

A man enters an old public bathhouse and dream of his father while under the spell of the elevated temperatures.

38-39°C

2011

GLAS Animation Festival Signal Film 2016 poster
NR

A somewhat soothing little animation

GLAS Animation Festival Signal Film 2016

2016

No artwork available
6.4

Dujung, an elementary school student, goes to a farm in the suburbs with his parents. While his parents believe the expensive and rare specialty from the farm will strengthen their son's body, Dujung suffers side effects.

Deer Flower

2016

No artwork available
6.4

Dujung, an elementary school student, goes to a farm in the suburbs with his parents. While his parents believe the expensive and rare specialty from the farm will strengthen their son's body, Dujung suffers side effects.

Deer Flower

2016