About

Known credits:
40
Birthday:
1975-10-01
Place of birth:
United States of America
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Kevin B. Lee

Overview

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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Acting
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2020 Once Upon a Screen, Explosive Paradox Actor Self N/A
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2020 The Making of Transformers the Premake Actor N/A
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2014 What Makes a Video Essay Great? Actor Narrator N/A
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Directing
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2021 Our Focus Directing Director N/A
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2020 Once Upon a Screen, Explosive Paradox Directing Director N/A
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2020 The Making of Transformers the Premake Directing Director N/A
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2020 Bottled Songs 1 & 2 Directing Director N/A
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2020 Bottled Songs: Looking Into the Flames Directing Director N/A
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2020 Harun Farocki: Presented Directing Director N/A
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2020 Harun Farocki: The Counter-Image Directing Director N/A
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2020 Harun Farocki: Lexicon Directing Director N/A
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2019 Re-enacting the Future Directing Director N/A
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2018 Reading Binging Benning Directing Director N/A
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2018 Bottled Songs 3 & 4 Directing Director N/A
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2017 Playing Cinema with Lori Felker Directing Director N/A
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2017 Bottled Songs: The Spokesman Directing Director N/A
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2017 #movieofmylife Directing Director N/A
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2017 What I Learned at the Harun Farocki Residency Directing Director N/A
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2016 Right Now Then Wrong Directing Director N/A
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2014 What Makes a Video Essay Great? Directing Director N/A
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2014 Transformers: The Premake Directing Director 59
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2014 Out 1: Solitaire Directing Director N/A
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Writing
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2019 Re-enacting the Future Writing Writer N/A
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2014 What Makes a Video Essay Great? Writing Writer N/A
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2014 Transformers: The Premake Writing Writer 59
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Production
2021 Bottled Songs 1-4 Production Producer N/A
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2014 Transformers: The Premake Production Producer 59
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2013 Jonathan Rosenbaum, Present Production Producer N/A
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Sound
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Art
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Camera
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2013 Jonathan Rosenbaum, Present Camera Camera Operator N/A
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Crew
2019 Watching the Pain of Others Crew Thanks 59
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Editing
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2014 What Makes a Video Essay Great? Editing Editor N/A
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2014 Transformers: The Premake Editing Editor 59
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2013 Jonathan Rosenbaum, Present Editing Editor N/A
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