Kevin B. Lee
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- October 1, 1975
- Place of birth
- United States of America
Biography
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.
Movies with Kevin B. Lee
Movies directed by Kevin B. Lee
- Transformers: The Premake 2014 · ★ 5.2
- Afterlives 2025 · ★ 6.5
- Our Focus 2021
- Right Now Then Wrong 2016
- Bottled Songs: Looking Into the Flames 2020
- Bottled Songs: The Spokesman 2017
- Playing Cinema with Lori Felker 2017
- The Making of Transformers the Premake 2020
- #movieofmylife 2017
- What I Learned at the Harun Farocki Residency 2017
- Out 1: Solitaire 2014
- Bottled Songs 3 & 4 2018
- Reading Binging Benning 2018
- Harun Farocki: The Counter-Image 2020
- Harun Farocki: Presented 2020
- Harun Farocki: Lexicon 2020
- Bottled Songs 1 & 2 2020
- Re-enacting the Future 2019
- Bottled Songs 1-4 2021
- Once Upon a Screen, Explosive Paradox 2020
- What Makes a Video Essay Great? 2014
- Orders of Time and Motion - The Shots of Sátántangó 2020
- Video Essay/The Essay Film: Some Thoughts of Discontent 2013