Kevin B. Lee
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Kevin B. Lee (* 1975) is an American filmmaker and critic from Chicago.[1] Lee is named as one of the founders of the Video Essay Genre and the "desktop-documentary"-format.[2] He has been Professor of the Future of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts at the Università della Svizzera italiana and the Locarno Film Festival since 2022.[3]
Biography[edit]
Kevin B. Lee studied Film, Video, New Media, Animation and Visual Critical Studies at the Art Institute of Chicago. He has been working as a video essayist since 2007.
Almost simultaneously, he began writing for various publications such as Sense of Cinema and Chicago Reader. In the course of this, he came to the attention of film critics such as Matt Zoller Seitz and Richard Brody of The New Yorker. Between 2007 and 2009, Lee collaborated intensively with various other film critics from New York City, but also with film theorists such as Kristin Thompson and Paolo Cherchi Usai. This led to greater publicity regarding his videographic works, which he published on Youtube. He produced video essays for Focus Features, among others.[4]
He brought the desktop documentary format to broader public attention with his 2014 documentary Transformers: The Premake.[5]
In 2017, Lee became the first scholarship holder of the Harun-Farocki-Institute in Berlin.[6] In the same year, he was appointed Professor of Crossmedia Publishing at the Merz Akademie Stuttgart. Since 2022 he has been Professor for the Future of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts at the Università della Svizzera italiana and the Locarno Film Festival.[3]
He previously taught film and media studies at the Art Institute of Chicago, the University of Illinois and the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. He was founding editor and senior video essayist at Fandor and executive producer of the nationally televised programme Ebert Presents: At the Movies.[7]
Select Filmography[edit]
- 2002: Banana (short film)
- 2003: On Guard (short film)
- 2004: Dastaar: Defending Sikh Identity (short film)
- 2012: Simple Expressions of Absolute Values (video)
- 2013: Lasting Elements on the Last Horizon (video)
- 2014: Transformers: the Premake (video)
- 2014-2016: Fandor
- 2020: Once Upon a Screen: Explosive Paradox (short film)
- 2020: Bottled Songs 1-4 (film)
- 2022: Piazza Futura (Postcard from the Future) (short film)
References[edit]
- ↑ "Kevin B. Lee – Merz Akademie". www.merz-akademie.de. Retrieved 2023-11-01.
- ↑ Zeitung, Süddeutsche (2017-01-07). "Video-Essayisten - Die Superstars der Filmkritik". Süddeutsche.de (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2023-11-01.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Locarno Film Festival und USI Università della Svizzera italiana: Der…". Locarno Film Festival (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2023-11-01.
- ↑ "The Videographic Essay: In Dialogue: Eric Faden and Kevin B. Lee". The Videographic Essay: Practice and Pedagogy. Retrieved 2023-11-01.
- ↑ "Transformers the Premake". KFFK / Kurzfilmfestival Köln (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2023-11-01.
- ↑ "Der Video-Essayist Kevin B. Lee: Medienkritik mit Transformers". Der Tagesspiegel Online (in Deutsch). ISSN 1865-2263. Retrieved 2023-11-01.
- ↑ "Kevin B. Lee appointed professor for Crossmedia Publishing - e-flux Education". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 2023-11-01.
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