Kevin B. Lee
Known For: Directing
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: October 1, 1975 (49 years old)
Place of Birth: 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.
2021
2020
Actor
The Making of Transformers the Premake
Actor Self
Once Upon a Screen, Explosive Paradox
Director
Bottled Songs: Looking Into the Flames
Director
The Making of Transformers the Premake
Director
Harun Farocki: The Counter-Image
Director
Harun Farocki: Presented
Director
Harun Farocki: Lexicon
Director
Bottled Songs 1 & 2
Director
Once Upon a Screen, Explosive Paradox
2019
2018
2017
2016
2014
Actor Narrator
What Makes a Video Essay Great?
Director
Transformers: The Premake
Director
Out 1: Solitaire
Editor
Transformers: The Premake
Producer
Transformers: The Premake
Writer
Transformers: The Premake
Director
What Makes a Video Essay Great?
Writer
What Makes a Video Essay Great?
Editor
What Makes a Video Essay Great?