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Born October 1, 1975 · 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" 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.

Afterlives
2025

Bottled Songs 1-4
2021

Our Focus
2021
Orders of Time and Motion - The Shots of Sátántangó
2020

Once Upon a Screen, Explosive Paradox
2020

The Making of Transformers the Premake
2020
Bottled Songs: Looking Into the Flames
2020
Bottled Songs 1 & 2
2020

Harun Farocki: The Counter-Image
2020

Harun Farocki: Lexicon
2020

Harun Farocki: Presented
2020

Re-enacting the Future
2019

Reading Binging Benning
2018
Bottled Songs 3 & 4
2018
Playing Cinema with Lori Felker
2017
Bottled Songs: The Spokesman
2017

#movieofmylife
2017

What I Learned at the Harun Farocki Residency
2017
Right Now Then Wrong
2016
What Makes a Video Essay Great?
2014
Transformers: The Premake
2014
Out 1: Solitaire
2014
Video Essay/The Essay Film: Some Thoughts of Discontent
2013