Christian Y Kim is a multidisciplinary artist [currently based in Los Angeles], working across photography, filmmaking, and sound. His work engages with memory, isolation, and the material conditions of images through both analog and digital processes, often using the recontextualization of personal archives.

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kelz
“I’m Sorry” (Official Music Video)

producer: Sohyun Lee
cinematographer / colorist: Jack Callahan
1st assistant camera: Alice Choi
title design: Estephanie Barrera

July 24, 2026

Directed and edited the music video for kelz’s single “I’m Sorry” released via Bayonet Records.





kelz
“Breathe” (Official Music Video)

producer: Sohyun Lee
co-editor: Raaghav Minocha
1st assistant camera: Alice Choi
title design: Estephanie Barrera

June 16, 2026

Directed, shot, and edited the music video for kelz’s single “Breathe” released via Bayonet Records.






CARBIKE
“Oxygen” (Official Music Video)

producer: Sylvia Jiho Lee

May 1, 2026

Shot, directed, and edited the music video for CARBIKE’s single “Oxygen” released via Gum Studio.




CARBIKE
“Loosie” (Official Music Video)

producer: Sylvia Jiho Lee
editor: Raaghav Minocha
film scan: The Negative Space

July 26, 2024

Shot and directed the music video for CARBIKE’s single “Loosie.”






Grandaddy
“The Town where I’m Livin Now” (Official Music Video)

July 11, 2023 Created for the 20th anniversary rerelease of Grandaddy’s revered album Sumday via Dangerbird Records. A documentary-style retrospective constructed as a sentimental road trip down memory lane and ode to California’s Central Valley.

“Revisiting this material and reflecting on those times has been a double-edged sword. Bittersweet is an apt word, I suppose. Twenty years after the fact, I’m just grateful to be alive and kicking.” - Jason Lytle, Grandaddy

featured on NPR All Songs Considered




Ki Oni
A Leisurely Swim to Everlasting Life - live at dublab

producer: Scott Osgood

January 15, 2024 A collaboration with experimental music label AKP Recordings and Chuck Soo-Hoo’s ambient project Ki Oni, filmed at the dublab headquarters in Los Angeles for Ki Oni’s new record A Leisurely Swim to Everlasting Life. Guided by Soo-Hoo’s swirling memories and thought processes on grief, death, and reincarnation, this video uses an improvised, experimental digital style to match Soo-Hoo’s improvisitional performance and recording ethos.

featured on Foxy Digitalis


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My Last   Five     Years



A zine of photographs taken from 2020 to 2025, serving as both a personal chronicle and an exercise in memory and association.

50 photographs, shot across a range of equipment and film stocks, arranged in an uncertain chronological order based on recollection. The process and result question how images assist or distort memory, and the inclination to impose meaning or narrative onto them.

170mm x 250mm
53 pages, staple bound
55gsm improved newsprint

December 20, 2025





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My Last   Five     Years