Glomm made his directorial debut with Det andre skiftet (1978)[1] and followed up with At dere tør!
After the children's film Zeppelin (1981) came Svarte fugler (1983), a love story set in the publishing environment, whereas Havlandet (1985) was a historical everyday drama for the Cap of the North.
The film had its literary setting in Idar Kristiansen's cycle of novels about the Finnish immigration to Northern Norway in the 1860s.
The dystopian film Sweetwater (1988) was based on Knut Faldbakken's two Uår novels.
[1] He was production manager for Vårnatt (1976) and the producer for Is-slottet (1987), both based on books by Tarjei Vesaas.