Kevin B. Lee

Known for DirectingBorn 1975-10-01 (age 50)United States of America

Kevin B. Lee (1975, USA) is a filmmaker, media artist, and critic. He has produced over 360 video essays exploring film and media. His award-winning "Transformers: The Premake" introduced the “desktop documentary” format, was named one of the best documentaries of 2014 by Sight & Sound and screened in many festivals including Berlin Critics Week, Rotterdam International Film Festival and Viennale International Film Festival. Through "Bottled Songs", his collaborative project with Chloé Galibert-Laîné, he was awarded the 2018 Sundance Institute Art of Nonfiction Grant, the 2018 European Media Artist Platform Residency, and the 2019 Eurimages Lab Project Award at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. He was 2017 Artist in Residence of the Harun Farocki Institut in Berlin. In 2019 he produced “Learning Farocki”, a series of video essays on Harun Farocki, commissioned by the Goethe Institut. In 2020 he is co-curating the Black Lives Matter Video Essay Playlist with Will DiGravio and Cydnii Wilde Harris. He was Founding Editor and Chief Video Essayist at Fandor from 2011-2016, supervising producer at Roger Ebert Presents At the Movies, and has written for The New York Times, Sight & Sound, Slate and Indiewire. He is Professor of Crossmedia Publishing at Merz Akademie, Stuttgart.Read more

Movies & web series

Watching the Pain of Others

Afterlives

Transformers: The Premake

Bottled Songs 1-4

Our Focus

The Making of Transformers the Premake

Once Upon a Screen, Explosive Paradox

Bottled Songs: Looking Into the Flames

Harun Farocki: The Counter-Image

Harun Farocki: Lexicon

Harun Farocki: Presented

Bottled Songs 1 & 2

Orders of Time and Motion - The Shots of Sátántangó

Re-enacting the Future

Bottled Songs 3 & 4

Reading Binging Benning

Bottled Songs: The Spokesman

Playing Cinema with Lori Felker

#movieofmylife

What I Learned at the Harun Farocki Residency

Right Now Then Wrong

What Makes a Video Essay Great?

Out 1: Solitaire

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Present

Video Essay/The Essay Film: Some Thoughts of Discontent