Kevin B. Lee

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.

Kevin B. Lee is known for work in directing across film and television. New Release currently presents 25 verified screen credits connected to this profile. Selected work includes Afterlives (2025), Our Focus (2021), #movieofmylife (2017), Harun Farocki: The Counter-Image (2020), Orders of Time and Motion - The Shots of Sátántangó (2020), Bottled Songs 1-4 (2021), Video Essay/The Essay Film: Some Thoughts of Discontent (2013), Reading Binging Benning (2018). The recorded credits span 2013 to 2025, including 25 movies and 0 TV shows. The filmography below lists available titles, release years and known roles. This profile is updated as additional verified information becomes available.