Jeffrey Kim

Movies

Light Up the Night
Cinematography
Light Up the Night is an analog science-fiction short film set in an Orwellian, futuristic 1980s. The story tells the tensions flaring between rebellious citizens and robotic law enforcement. We are introduced to two dissidents as they take aim at the city's looming, panoptic control tower, while local band The Protomen take the stage amidst the action, inciting unrest as they narrate the struggle.
How Do You Raise a Black Child?
Cinematography
This impressionistic adaptation of Cortney Lamar Charleston's poem "How Do You Raise a Black Child?" portrays the everyday life of a young black man growing up in America and the issues thrust upon his parents.
A Film by Vera Vaughn
Director of Photography
In this ghost story for the digital age, filmmaker Vera Vaughn works late into the night, editing her psychological thriller about a woman jeopardized by a mysterious home intruder. But when she's interrupted by a knock at the door, Vera’s world takes a frightening turn toward the surreal as life threatens to imitate art — or is it the other way around?
The Trial of Barnaby Finch
Director of Photography
To swat or not to swat? That is the question an errant fly poses to our hapless hero, Barnaby Finch, at the penultimate moment of his job interview. Filmed in split-screen, the potential consequences of Barnaby's weighty decision ripple out in absurdist waves, cascading toward an unexpected climax in this 2.5-minute metaphysical comedy