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Kevin B. Lee

Born October 1, 1975 · United States of America (age 50)

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…

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AfterlivesAfterlives · 2025
Afterlives
★ 6.52025
MovieDocumentary
Through desktop documentary and forensics, this work explores how images of Medusa of Hatra, ISIS propaganda, and digital archives influence reality and memory while examining violence and witness.
Reading Binging BenningReading Binging Benning · 2018
Reading Binging Benning
2018
Movie
How much can you see of a movie you can't see? A speculative video essay on the film READERS by James Benning.
Bottled Songs 1-4Bottled Songs 1-4 · 2021
Bottled Songs 1-4
2021
MovieDocumentary
Bottled Songs is an ongoing media project depicting strategies for making sense of online terrorist propaganda. Filmmakers and media researchers Chloé Galibert-Laîné and Kevin B. Lee compose letters addressed to each other, narrating their encounters with videos originating from the terrorist group the Islamic State (ISIS). They use a desktop documentary approach to trace and record their investigations playing directly upon their computer screens.
Re-enacting the FutureRe-enacting the Future · 2019
Re-enacting the Future
2019
Movie
A video essay by Chloé Galibert-Laîné and Kevin B. Lee. Commissioned by Dana Linssen and Jan Pieter Ekker for Critics Choice V: Absence, 2019 International Film Festival Rotterdam. Special thanks to Bero Beyer. Dedicated to the film I DO NOT CARE IF WE GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS BARBARIANS by Radu Jude.
#movieofmylife#movieofmylife · 2017
#movieofmylife
2017
MovieDocumentary
Premiered at the 2017 Locarno International Film Festival.
Our FocusOur Focus · 2021
Our Focus
2021
MovieDocumentary
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.
What I Learned at the Harun Farocki ResidencyWhat I Learned at the Harun Farocki Residency · 2017
What I Learned at the Harun Farocki Residency
2017
MovieDocumentary
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 Goethe Institute.
The Making of Transformers the PremakeThe Making of Transformers the Premake · 2020
The Making of Transformers the Premake
2020
MovieDocumentary
The mind process behind the film, Transformers the Premake, explained by Kevin B Lee himself.

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