Kevin B. Lee
Born: 1975-10-01 in United States of America
Known For: Directing
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.
Filmography
2025
2021
- Bottled Songs 1-4
- Our Focus ... (Director)
2020
- Harun Farocki: Presented ... (Director)
- Harun Farocki: Lexicon ... (Director)
- Bottled Songs 1 & 2 ... (Director)
- Orders of Time and Motion - The Shots of Sátántangó ... (Director)
- The Making of Transformers the Premake
- Harun Farocki: The Counter-Image ... (Director)
- Bottled Songs: Looking Into the Flames ... (Director)
- Once Upon a Screen, Explosive Paradox as Self
2019
- Watching the Pain of Others ... (Thanks)
- Re-enacting the Future ... (Director)
2018
- Reading Binging Benning ... (Director)
- Bottled Songs 3 & 4 ... (Director)
2017
- What I Learned at the Harun Farocki Residency ... (Director)
- #movieofmylife ... (Director)
- Playing Cinema with Lori Felker ... (Director)
- Bottled Songs: The Spokesman ... (Director)
2016
- Right Now Then Wrong ... (Director)
2014
- Transformers: The Premake ... (Director)
- Out 1: Solitaire ... (Director)
- What Makes a Video Essay Great? as Narrator
2013
- Video Essay/The Essay Film: Some Thoughts of Discontent ... (Director)
- Jonathan Rosenbaum, Present ... (Producer)