Kevin B. Lee
Still: Bottled Songs 1-4Kevin B. LEE (1975, USA) is a filmmaker, media artist and film critic. He studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, pursuing Master's degrees in Film, Video, New Media and Animation, and in Visual and Critical Studies. In his short films and documentaries, Lee often criticises the medium of film and the film industry. Over the last ten years, he has produced over 360 video essays. His award-winning film Transformers: The Premake screened at several festivals and was named one of the best documentaries of 2014 by Sight & Sound. He regularly works together with filmmaker and media artist Chloé Galibert-Laîné and they have presented their collaborative works at IFFR, True/False Film Festival, Open City Documentary Film Festival, Camden International Film Festival and London Essay Film Festival, as well as art venues such as the Ars Electronica Festival and the WRO Media Art Biennale.
Filmography
(selection, all short) Banana (2002), On Guard (2003), Dastaar: Defending Sikh Identity (2004, doc), Simple Expressions of Absolute Values (2012, doc), Lasting Elements on the Last Horizon (2013, doc), Transformers: The Premake (2014, doc), Right Now Then Wrong (2016), Occupation (2016), Not Another Camelot (2017), #movieofmylife (2017), Harun Farocki: The Counter-Image (2019, doc), Harun Farocki: Presented (2020, doc), Harun Farocki: Lexicon (2020, doc), Bottled Songs 1-4 (2020, co-dir)
More info: Kevin B. Lee
Kevin B. Lee at IFFR
Tape
168'
China
IFFR 2011
Transformers: The Premake
25'
USA
IFFR 2015
Harun Farocki: Lexicon
Five decades of Harun Farocki's film and video material transformed into an audiovisual vocabulary, teaching key Farockian concepts from A to Z.
13'
Germany
IFFR 2020
Harun Farocki: Presented
Harun Farocki appears in 24 of his own films. His time on screen totals 2 hours and 21 minutes, enough to form a movie in itself.
11'
Germany
IFFR 2020
Harun Farocki: The Counter-Image
This desktop investigation asks: how can one begin to learn about Farocki? A naive search for his name online is already revealing.
11'
Germany
IFFR 2020
Bottled Songs 1-4
In video letters, Chloé Galibert-Laîné and Kevin B. Lee analyse propaganda films from terror group ISIS and their effect on the viewer.
77'
Germany
IFFR 2021