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.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, PresentPlaying Cinema with Lori FelkerTransformers: The PremakeBottled Songs 3 & 4
Reading Binging Benning
Watching the Pain of Others
Harun Farocki: The Counter-Image
Harun Farocki: Lexicon
Harun Farocki: PresentedBottled Songs 1 & 2
Bottled Songs 1-4
Re-enacting the Future
Once Upon a Screen, Explosive Paradox
Our FocusRight Now Then WrongBottled Songs: The SpokesmanBottled Songs: Looking Into the Flames
What I Learned at the Harun Farocki Residency
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The Making of Transformers the Premake
