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Kevin B. Lee (b. 1975)

Birthplace:
United States of America

Born:
October 1, 1975

Biography from TheMovieDB

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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Film Production

Camera Operator:
2013  Jonathan Rosenbaum, Present

Director:
2013  Jonathan Rosenbaum, Present
2014  Out 1: Solitaire
2014  Transformers: The Premake
2014  What Makes a Video Essay Great?
2016  Right Now Then Wrong
2017  #movieofmylife
2017  Bottled Songs: The Spokesman
2017  Playing Cinema with Lori Felker
2017  What I Learned at the Harun Farocki Residency
2018  Bottled Songs 3 & 4
2018  Reading Binging Benning
2019  Re-enacting the Future
2020  Bottled Songs 1 & 2
2020  Bottled Songs: Looking Into the Flames
2020  Harun Farocki: Lexicon
2020  Harun Farocki: Presented
2020  Harun Farocki: The Counter-Image
2020  Once Upon a Screen, Explosive Paradox
2020  The Making of Transformers the Premake
2021  Bottled Songs 1-4
2021  Our Focus

Director of Photography:
2013  Jonathan Rosenbaum, Present
2014  Out 1: Solitaire
2014  Transformers: The Premake
2014  What Makes a Video Essay Great?
2016  Right Now Then Wrong
2017  #movieofmylife
2017  Bottled Songs: The Spokesman
2017  Playing Cinema with Lori Felker
2017  What I Learned at the Harun Farocki Residency
2018  Bottled Songs 3 & 4
2018  Reading Binging Benning
2019  Re-enacting the Future
2020  Bottled Songs 1 & 2
2020  Bottled Songs: Looking Into the Flames
2020  Harun Farocki: Lexicon
2020  Harun Farocki: Presented
2020  Harun Farocki: The Counter-Image
2020  Once Upon a Screen, Explosive Paradox
2020  The Making of Transformers the Premake
2021  Bottled Songs 1-4
2021  Our Focus

Editor:
2013  Jonathan Rosenbaum, Present
2014  Out 1: Solitaire
2014  Transformers: The Premake
2014  What Makes a Video Essay Great?
2016  Right Now Then Wrong
2017  #movieofmylife
2017  Bottled Songs: The Spokesman
2017  Playing Cinema with Lori Felker
2017  What I Learned at the Harun Farocki Residency
2018  Bottled Songs 3 & 4
2018  Reading Binging Benning
2019  Re-enacting the Future
2020  Bottled Songs 1 & 2
2020  Bottled Songs: Looking Into the Flames
2020  Harun Farocki: Lexicon
2020  Harun Farocki: Presented
2020  Harun Farocki: The Counter-Image
2020  Once Upon a Screen, Explosive Paradox
2020  The Making of Transformers the Premake
2021  Bottled Songs 1-4
2021  Our Focus

Producer:
2013  Jonathan Rosenbaum, Present
2014  Out 1: Solitaire
2014  Transformers: The Premake
2014  What Makes a Video Essay Great?
2016  Right Now Then Wrong
2017  #movieofmylife
2017  Bottled Songs: The Spokesman
2017  Playing Cinema with Lori Felker
2017  What I Learned at the Harun Farocki Residency
2018  Bottled Songs 3 & 4
2018  Reading Binging Benning
2019  Re-enacting the Future
2020  Bottled Songs 1 & 2
2020  Bottled Songs: Looking Into the Flames
2020  Harun Farocki: Lexicon
2020  Harun Farocki: Presented
2020  Harun Farocki: The Counter-Image
2020  Once Upon a Screen, Explosive Paradox
2020  The Making of Transformers the Premake
2021  Bottled Songs 1-4
2021  Our Focus

Production Design:
2013  Jonathan Rosenbaum, Present
2014  Out 1: Solitaire
2014  Transformers: The Premake
2014  What Makes a Video Essay Great?
2016  Right Now Then Wrong
2017  #movieofmylife
2017  Bottled Songs: The Spokesman
2017  Playing Cinema with Lori Felker
2017  What I Learned at the Harun Farocki Residency
2018  Bottled Songs 3 & 4
2018  Reading Binging Benning
2019  Re-enacting the Future
2020  Bottled Songs 1 & 2
2020  Bottled Songs: Looking Into the Flames
2020  Harun Farocki: Lexicon
2020  Harun Farocki: Presented
2020  Harun Farocki: The Counter-Image
2020  Once Upon a Screen, Explosive Paradox
2020  The Making of Transformers the Premake
2021  Bottled Songs 1-4
2021  Our Focus

Sound Designer:
2013  Jonathan Rosenbaum, Present
2014  Out 1: Solitaire
2014  Transformers: The Premake
2014  What Makes a Video Essay Great?
2016  Right Now Then Wrong
2017  #movieofmylife
2017  Bottled Songs: The Spokesman
2017  Playing Cinema with Lori Felker
2017  What I Learned at the Harun Farocki Residency
2018  Bottled Songs 3 & 4
2018  Reading Binging Benning
2019  Re-enacting the Future
2020  Bottled Songs 1 & 2
2020  Bottled Songs: Looking Into the Flames
2020  Harun Farocki: Lexicon
2020  Harun Farocki: Presented
2020  Harun Farocki: The Counter-Image
2020  Once Upon a Screen, Explosive Paradox
2020  The Making of Transformers the Premake
2021  Bottled Songs 1-4
2021  Our Focus

Thanks:
2013  Jonathan Rosenbaum, Present
2014  Out 1: Solitaire
2014  Transformers: The Premake
2014  What Makes a Video Essay Great?
2016  Right Now Then Wrong
2017  #movieofmylife
2017  Bottled Songs: The Spokesman
2017  Playing Cinema with Lori Felker
2017  What I Learned at the Harun Farocki Residency
2018  Bottled Songs 3 & 4
2018  Reading Binging Benning
2019  Re-enacting the Future
2019  Watching the Pain of Others
2020  Bottled Songs 1 & 2
2020  Bottled Songs: Looking Into the Flames
2020  Harun Farocki: Lexicon
2020  Harun Farocki: Presented
2020  Harun Farocki: The Counter-Image
2020  Once Upon a Screen, Explosive Paradox
2020  The Making of Transformers the Premake
2021  Bottled Songs 1-4
2021  Our Focus

Writer:
2013  Jonathan Rosenbaum, Present
2014  Out 1: Solitaire
2014  Transformers: The Premake
2014  What Makes a Video Essay Great?
2016  Right Now Then Wrong
2017  #movieofmylife
2017  Bottled Songs: The Spokesman
2017  Playing Cinema with Lori Felker
2017  What I Learned at the Harun Farocki Residency
2018  Bottled Songs 3 & 4
2018  Reading Binging Benning
2019  Re-enacting the Future
2019  Watching the Pain of Others
2020  Bottled Songs 1 & 2
2020  Bottled Songs: Looking Into the Flames
2020  Harun Farocki: Lexicon
2020  Harun Farocki: Presented
2020  Harun Farocki: The Counter-Image
2020  Once Upon a Screen, Explosive Paradox
2020  The Making of Transformers the Premake
2021  Bottled Songs 1-4
2021  Our Focus

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