Kevin B. Lee

Kevin B. Lee

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.

  • Title: Kevin B. Lee
  • Popularity: 0.001
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1975-10-01
  • Place of Birth: United States of America
  • Homepage: https://www.alsolikelife.com/
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Kevin B. Lee Movies

  • 2021
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    Bottled Songs 1-4

    Bottled Songs 1-4

    1 2021 HD

    Bottled Songs is an ongoing media project depicting strategies for making sense of online terrorist propaganda. Filmmakers and media researchers...

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  • 2020
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    The Making of Transformers the Premake

    The Making of Transformers the Premake

    1 2020 HD

    The mind process behind the film, Transformers the Premake, explained by Kevin B Lee himself.

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  • 2020
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    Once Upon a Screen, Explosive Paradox

    Once Upon a Screen, Explosive Paradox

    1 2020 HD

    ‘Kevin’s piece on his childhood experiences with the film Platoon are an example of the very power of cinema to shape our relationship...

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  • 2014
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    What Makes a Video Essay Great?

    What Makes a Video Essay Great?

    1 2014 HD

    The video essay is expanding our notions of film criticism and appreciation. But do these essays offer a key to let us out—or lock us in?

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  • 2019
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    Watching the Pain of Others

    Watching the Pain of Others

    9 2019 HD

    In this deeply personal video diary, a young researcher tries to make sense of her fascination for the film "The Pain of Others" by Penny Lane. A...

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  • 2021
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    Our Focus

    Our Focus

    1 2021 HD

    Video essay on the work of Jia Zhangke by Kevin B. Lee, specially commissioned by Eye Filmmuseum and IFFR as a response to the installation Close-Up.

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  • 2021
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    Bottled Songs 1-4

    Bottled Songs 1-4

    1 2021 HD

    Bottled Songs is an ongoing media project depicting strategies for making sense of online terrorist propaganda. Filmmakers and media researchers...

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  • 2021
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    Bottled Songs 1-4

    Bottled Songs 1-4

    1 2021 HD

    Bottled Songs is an ongoing media project depicting strategies for making sense of online terrorist propaganda. Filmmakers and media researchers...

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  • 2021
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    Bottled Songs 1-4

    Bottled Songs 1-4

    1 2021 HD

    Bottled Songs is an ongoing media project depicting strategies for making sense of online terrorist propaganda. Filmmakers and media researchers...

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  • 2021
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    Bottled Songs 1-4

    Bottled Songs 1-4

    1 2021 HD

    Bottled Songs is an ongoing media project depicting strategies for making sense of online terrorist propaganda. Filmmakers and media researchers...

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  • 2021
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    Bottled Songs 1-4

    Bottled Songs 1-4

    1 2021 HD

    Bottled Songs is an ongoing media project depicting strategies for making sense of online terrorist propaganda. Filmmakers and media researchers...

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  • 2021
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    Bottled Songs 1-4

    Bottled Songs 1-4

    1 2021 HD

    Bottled Songs is an ongoing media project depicting strategies for making sense of online terrorist propaganda. Filmmakers and media researchers...

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  • 2013
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    Jonathan Rosenbaum, Present

    Jonathan Rosenbaum, Present

    1 2013 HD

    A portrait of the influential American film critic.

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  • 2013
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    Jonathan Rosenbaum, Present

    Jonathan Rosenbaum, Present

    1 2013 HD

    A portrait of the influential American film critic.

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  • 2013
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    Jonathan Rosenbaum, Present

    Jonathan Rosenbaum, Present

    1 2013 HD

    A portrait of the influential American film critic.

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  • 2020
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    Bottled Songs: Looking Into the Flames

    Bottled Songs: Looking Into the Flames

    1 2020 HD

    Kevin analyzes a video described as the “first feature film” produced by ISIS. Struck by the mainstream media’s fascination with...

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  • 2016
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    Right Now Then Wrong

    Right Now Then Wrong

    1 2016 HD

    “The film [Right Now Then Wrong] is really fascinating — it is basically the same story told twice, back to back, and the thing I really...

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  • 2017
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    Bottled Songs: The Spokesman

    Bottled Songs: The Spokesman

    1 2017 HD

    Kevin investigates the online traces of a British news reporter who was kidnapped and appeared in several Islamic State propaganda videos.

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  • 2017
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    Playing Cinema with Lori Felker

    Playing Cinema with Lori Felker

    1 2017 HD

    On the Chicago filmmaker's exuberant approach to the medium. As Lori says, 'You may never find an answer, because playing is the best part.'

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  • 2014
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    Transformers: The Premake

    Transformers: The Premake

    5.5 2014 HD

    Transformers: Age of Extinction, the fourth installment of the Transformers movie franchise directed by Michael Bay, will be released June 27 2014....

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  • 2020
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    The Making of Transformers the Premake

    The Making of Transformers the Premake

    1 2020 HD

    The mind process behind the film, Transformers the Premake, explained by Kevin B Lee himself.

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  • 2017
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    #movieofmylife

    #movieofmylife

    1 2017 HD

    Premiered at the 2017 Locarno International Film Festival.

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  • 2017
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    What I Learned at the Harun Farocki Residency

    What I Learned at the Harun Farocki Residency

    1 2017 HD

    In this video I share my experience as the first Resident of the Harun Farocki Institut in Berlin during the winter of 2016-2017. Produced for the...

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  • 2014
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    Out 1: Solitaire

    Out 1: Solitaire

    1 2014 HD

    A video essay collaboration on Jacques Rivette's Out 1, produced by Kevin B. Lee using messages received by film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum.

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  • 2018
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    Bottled Songs 3 & 4

    Bottled Songs 3 & 4

    1 2018 HD

    This video presents Chapters 3 and 4 from the series. « The Spokesman » (aka « A Guide to be driven ») investigates the...

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  • 2018
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    Reading Binging Benning

    Reading Binging Benning

    1 2018 HD

    How much can you see of a movie you can't see? A speculative video essay on the film READERS by James Benning.

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  • 2014
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    Transformers: The Premake

    Transformers: The Premake

    5.5 2014 HD

    Transformers: Age of Extinction, the fourth installment of the Transformers movie franchise directed by Michael Bay, will be released June 27 2014....

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  • 2014
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    Transformers: The Premake

    Transformers: The Premake

    5.5 2014 HD

    Transformers: Age of Extinction, the fourth installment of the Transformers movie franchise directed by Michael Bay, will be released June 27 2014....

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  • 2014
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    Transformers: The Premake

    Transformers: The Premake

    5.5 2014 HD

    Transformers: Age of Extinction, the fourth installment of the Transformers movie franchise directed by Michael Bay, will be released June 27 2014....

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  • 2020
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    Harun Farocki: Presented

    Harun Farocki: Presented

    1 2020 HD

    What can be learned from watching only the moments when an artist appears in his own work? Harun Farocki appears in 24 of his own films; his time on...

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  • 2020
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    Harun Farocki: The Counter-Image

    Harun Farocki: The Counter-Image

    1 2020 HD

    This desktop investigation asks: how can one begin to learn about Farocki? Starting with a naive search for his name online, this film scans over his...

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  • 2020
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    Harun Farocki: Lexicon

    Harun Farocki: Lexicon

    1 2020 HD

    Five decades of Harun Farocki's film and video material are transformed into an audiovisual vocabulary, teaching key Farockian concepts from A to Z....

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  • 2020
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    Bottled Songs 1 & 2

    Bottled Songs 1 & 2

    1 2020 HD

    Two researchers investigate the dissemination of propaganda created by the terrorist organization known as the Islamic State and contemplate the...

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  • 2019
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    Re-enacting the Future

    Re-enacting the Future

    1 2019 HD

    A video essay by Chloé Galibert-Laîné and Kevin B. Lee. Commissioned by Dana Linssen and Jan Pieter Ekker for Critics Choice V:...

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  • 2021
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    Bottled Songs 1-4

    Bottled Songs 1-4

    1 2021 HD

    Bottled Songs is an ongoing media project depicting strategies for making sense of online terrorist propaganda. Filmmakers and media researchers...

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  • 2019
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    Re-enacting the Future

    Re-enacting the Future

    1 2019 HD

    A video essay by Chloé Galibert-Laîné and Kevin B. Lee. Commissioned by Dana Linssen and Jan Pieter Ekker for Critics Choice V:...

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  • 2020
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    Once Upon a Screen, Explosive Paradox

    Once Upon a Screen, Explosive Paradox

    1 2020 HD

    ‘Kevin’s piece on his childhood experiences with the film Platoon are an example of the very power of cinema to shape our relationship...

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  • 2014
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    What Makes a Video Essay Great?

    What Makes a Video Essay Great?

    1 2014 HD

    The video essay is expanding our notions of film criticism and appreciation. But do these essays offer a key to let us out—or lock us in?

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  • 2014
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    What Makes a Video Essay Great?

    What Makes a Video Essay Great?

    1 2014 HD

    The video essay is expanding our notions of film criticism and appreciation. But do these essays offer a key to let us out—or lock us in?

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  • 2014
    imgMovies

    What Makes a Video Essay Great?

    What Makes a Video Essay Great?

    1 2014 HD

    The video essay is expanding our notions of film criticism and appreciation. But do these essays offer a key to let us out—or lock us in?

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