Kevin B. Lee (born 1975) is a filmmaker, media artist, critic and teacher. He is Professor of Crossmedia Publishing at Merz Akademie, Stuttgart.
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 wi ...
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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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'Kevin's piece on his childhood experiences with the film Platoon are an example of the very power of cinema to shape our relationship with the world, and the world's relationship with us … an experience of childhood trauma so visceral, that I haven't ju ...
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The mind process behind the film, Transformers the Premake, explained by Kevin B Lee himself. ...
Watch NowTwo researchers investigate the dissemination of propaganda created by the terrorist organization known as the Islamic State and contemplate the media's role in spreading this message. Exchanging video letters recorded from their computer desktops, the res ...
Watch NowKevin analyzes a video described as the "first feature film" produced by ISIS. Struck by the mainstream media's fascination with the video as a movie, he explores possible cinematic connections: Nazi propaganda movies, Hollywood, and early leftist revoluti ...
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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 body of work and asks how one should begin to watch it. By using different methods to make sense of Farock ...
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Five decades of Harun Farocki's film and video material are transformed into an audiovisual vocabulary, teaching key Farockian concepts from A to Z. This video essay takes inspiration from Farocki's lifelong fascination with the teaching functions of film ...
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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 deep dive into the discomforting world of YouTube and online conspiracies, that challenges traditional notions ...
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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 ...
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How much can you see of a movie you can't see? A speculative video essay on the film READERS by James Benning. ...
Watch NowThis video presents Chapters 3 and 4 from the series. « The Spokesman » (aka « A Guide to be driven ») investigates the online traces of John Cantlie, a British news reporter who was kidnapped and appeared in several Islamic State's propaganda video ...
Watch NowOn the Chicago filmmaker's exuberant approach to the medium. As Lori says, 'You may never find an answer, because playing is the best part. ...
Watch NowKevin investigates the online traces of a British news reporter who was kidnapped and appeared in several Islamic State propaganda videos. ...
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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. ...
Watch NowThe 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? ...
Watch NowTransformers: Age of Extinction, the fourth installment of the Transformers movie franchise directed by Michael Bay, will be released June 27 2014. But on YouTube one can already access an immense trove of production footage recorded by amateurs in locatio ...
Watch NowA video essay collaboration on Jacques Rivette's Out 1, produced by Kevin B. Lee using messages received by film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum. ...
Watch NowBottled 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 wi ...
Watch Now'Kevin's piece on his childhood experiences with the film Platoon are an example of the very power of cinema to shape our relationship with the world, and the world's relationship with us … an experience of childhood trauma so visceral, that I haven't ju ...
Watch NowThe mind process behind the film, Transformers the Premake, explained by Kevin B Lee himself. ...
Watch NowThe 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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