While making films, KIM also engages in research-based media exhibition work. He has directed short fiction films such as Slow Day (2010) and Concrete (2013), as well as the short documentary Land Without People (2016) and the short experimental film Day and Night (2017). His first feature film, Night Light (2018), was screened in the Vision section at the BIFF and won the Passionate Staff Award at the Seoul Independent Film Festival and the Best Cinematography Award at the Wildflower Film Awards Korea. The director’s experimental short documentary Gold Dragon Mountain (2021) was invited to the Seoul Independent Film Festival and the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival.