Kevin B. Lee

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October 1, 1975

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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Bottled Songs 1-4
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movie2021France
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Our Focus
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movie2021United States
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Once Upon a Screen, Explosive Paradox
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movie2020United States
Character: SelfCredit: Acting, Director
The Making of Transformers the Premake
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Bottled Songs: Looking Into the Flames
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Bottled Songs 1 & 2
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Harun Farocki: The Counter-Image
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Harun Farocki: Lexicon
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Harun Farocki: Presented
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Watching the Pain of Others
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movie2019France
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Re-enacting the Future
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movie2019United States
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Reading Binging Benning
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movie2018Portugal
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Bottled Songs 3 & 4
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movie2018United States
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Playing Cinema with Lori Felker
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movie2017United States
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Bottled Songs: The Spokesman
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#movieofmylife
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What I Learned at the Harun Farocki Residency
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Right Now Then Wrong
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movie2016United States
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What Makes a Video Essay Great?
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movie2014United States
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Transformers: The Premake
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movie2014United States
Character: Director, WriterCredit: Director, Editor, Producer, Writer