Kim Kang-min
Directing
Biography
Kim Kang-min is a Korean animation filmmaker based in Los Angeles, California.
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지구에 무슨 129
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

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

Troubled by the death of her brother a young girl and her best friend run away from their convent school for an afternoon. After burying a dead bird the young girl realizes she must look inward for the will and the courage to carry on. production, direction, animation, and story by Jenny Nirgends stop-motion, 2024, 6:33
The Last Wild Bird in Heaven

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

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

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

A man enters an old public bathhouse and dream of his father while under the spell of the elevated temperatures.
38-39°C

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

A somewhat soothing little animation
GLAS Animation Festival Signal Film 2016

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

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.