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Kevin B. Lee
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" i…
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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.
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2025
Afterlives
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2021
Bottled Songs 1-4
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2021
Our Focus
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2020
Orders of Time and Motion - The Shots of Sátántangó
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2020
Once Upon a Screen, Explosive Paradox
Movie Self
- 2020
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2020
Bottled Songs 1 & 2
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2020
Bottled Songs: Looking Into the Flames
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2020
Harun Farocki: Lexicon
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2020
Harun Farocki: Presented
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2020
Harun Farocki: The Counter-Image
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2019
Watching the Pain of Others
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2019
Re-enacting the Future
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2018
Reading Binging Benning
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2018
Bottled Songs 3 & 4
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2017
Playing Cinema with Lori Felker
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2017
Bottled Songs: The Spokesman
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2017
#movieofmylife
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2017
What I Learned at the Harun Farocki Residency
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2016
Right Now Then Wrong
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2014
What Makes a Video Essay Great?
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2014
Transformers: The Premake
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2014
Out 1: Solitaire
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2013
Video Essay/The Essay Film: Some Thoughts of Discontent
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2013
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Present
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