Kevin B. Lee
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- October 1, 1975
- Birthplace
- United States of America
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.
Filmography
Afterlives 2025
Actor, Director, Writer, Editor
Bottled Songs 1-4 2021
Actor, Writer, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor, Production Design, Sound Designer, Director
Our Focus 2021
Director
Orders of Time and Motion - The Shots of Sátántangó 2020
Director
Once Upon a Screen, Explosive Paradox 2020
as Self, Director
The Making of Transformers the Premake 2020
Actor, Director
Bottled Songs 1 & 2 2020
Director
Bottled Songs: Looking Into the Flames 2020
Director
Harun Farocki: Presented 2020
Director
Harun Farocki: Lexicon 2020
Director
Harun Farocki: The Counter-Image 2020
Director
Re-enacting the Future 2019
Director, Writer
Reading Binging Benning 2018
Director
Bottled Songs 3 & 4 2018
Director
Playing Cinema with Lori Felker 2017
Director
Bottled Songs: The Spokesman 2017
Director
#movieofmylife 2017
Director
What I Learned at the Harun Farocki Residency 2017
Director
Right Now Then Wrong 2016
Director
What Makes a Video Essay Great? 2014
as Narrator, Director, Writer, Editor
Transformers: The Premake 2014
Director, Writer, Producer, Editor
Out 1: Solitaire 2014
Director
Video Essay/The Essay Film: Some Thoughts of Discontent 2013
Director
Watching the Pain of Others 2019
Thanks
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Present 2013
Producer, Editor, Camera Operator
Credits from TMDB.