Kevin B. Lee

Directing·Oct 1, 1975·United States of America

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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.

Film	Credit
Afterlives2025 · Actor, Director, Writer	Actor, Director, Writer
Bottled Songs 1-42021 · Actor, Director of Photography, Writer, Producer, Director	Actor, Director of Photography, Writer, Producer, Director
Our Focus2021 · Director	Director
OOrders of Time and Motion - The Shots of Sátántangó2020 · Director	Director
Once Upon a Screen, Explosive Paradox2020 · Self, Director	Self, Director
The Making of Transformers the Premake2020 · Actor, Director	Actor, Director
BBottled Songs: Looking Into the Flames2020 · Director	Director
BBottled Songs 1 & 22020 · Director	Director
Harun Farocki: Presented2020 · Director	Director
Harun Farocki: The Counter-Image2020 · Director	Director
Harun Farocki: Lexicon2020 · Director	Director
Re-enacting the Future2019 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Reading Binging Benning2018 · Director	Director
BBottled Songs 3 & 42018 · Director	Director
PPlaying Cinema with Lori Felker2017 · Director	Director
BBottled Songs: The Spokesman2017 · Director	Director
#movieofmylife2017 · Director	Director
What I Learned at the Harun Farocki Residency2017 · Director	Director
RRight Now Then Wrong2016 · Director	Director
WWhat Makes a Video Essay Great?2014 · Narrator, Director, Writer	Narrator, Director, Writer
TTransformers: The Premake2014 · Director, Producer, Writer	Director, Producer, Writer
OOut 1: Solitaire2014 · Director	Director
VVideo Essay/The Essay Film: Some Thoughts of Discontent2013 · Director	Director
JJonathan Rosenbaum, Present2013 · Producer	Producer