Director
Kevin B. Lee
51 years · United States of America · 12 films
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.
Best known for
Filmography 12
Afterlives
2025 · Actor, Director
Bottled Songs 1-4
2021 · Actor, Cinematography
Our Focus
2021 · Director
Once Upon a Screen, Explosive Paradox
2020 · Self, Director
The Making of Transformers the Premake
2020 · Actor, Director
Harun Farocki: The Counter-Image
2020 · Director
Harun Farocki: Presented
2020 · Director
Harun Farocki: Lexicon
2020 · Director
Re-enacting the Future
2019 · Writer, Director
Reading Binging Benning
2018 · Director
#movieofmylife
2017 · Director
What I Learned at the Harun Farocki Residency
2017 · Director