He creates and exhibits films that make full use of all film and video techniques, treating the image and the music as elements of equal importance. He has collaborated musicians such as Jim O’Rourke, Otomo Yoshihide, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Simon Fisher Turner. Makino was prominently featured at the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2008. Since then, his cinema works were screened in over 100 cities in the world, including New York Film Festival, MoMA PS1, New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, San Francisco MoMA, Whitechapel Gallery in London, Austrian Film Museum, and The Korean Film Archive.