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Kevin B. Lee is an American filmmaker, critic and educator from San Francisco. Lee is named as one of the founders of the Video Essay Genre and the "desktop-documentary"-format.[1] 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.[2][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.[4]
He brought the desktop documentary format to broader public attention with his 2014 documentary Transformers: The Premake.[5] He has since shared his approach to research as a lecturer for Yale University and the Centre for Investigative Journalism, among others.[6][7]
In 2017, Lee became the first scholarship holder of the Harun-Farocki-Institute in Berlin.[8] In the same year, he was appointed Professor of Cross media publishing at the Merz Akademie.[9]
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[10] and executive producer of the nationally televised programme Ebert Presents: At the Movies.[11]
Filmography (selected)
[edit]- Banana (2002)
- On Guard (2003)
- Dastaar: Defending Sikh Identity (2004)
- Simple Expressions of Absolute Values (2012)
- Lasting Elements on the Last Horizon (2013)
- Transformers: the Premake (2014)
- Once Upon a Screen: Explosive Paradox (2020)
- Bottled Songs 1-4 (2020)
- Piazza Futura (Postcard from the Future) (2022)
References
[edit]- ^ Seitz, Matt Zoller (13 January 2009). "Copy Rites: YouTube vs. Kevin B. Lee". Slant Magazine.
- ^ Di Salvatore, Giuseppe (25 August 2023). "Kevin B. Lee A PLEA FOR PRESENCE". Filmexplorer.
- ^ Barzanji, Arta (26 October 2023). "Nourished by Time: Facing the Future of Cinema with Locarno's Kevin B. Lee intelligence". MUBI.
- ^ "MFA Student Curates Art Institute Collection Online | School of the Art Institute of Chicago". Saic.edu.
- ^ Buckley, Cara (16 June 2014). "Transforming Phone Video Into Publicity and a Film". The New York Times.
- ^ "Investigating Islamism". The Centre for Investigative Journalism. 18 November 2022.
- ^ "Pioneer of the 'desktop documentary' to speak about his craft". YaleNews. 28 March 2018.
- ^ "Der Video-Essayist Kevin B. Lee: Medienkritik mit Transformers". Tagesspiegel (in German). ISSN 1865-2263.
- ^ "Kevin B. Lee begins co-directing Master's program". e-flux.
- ^ Haglund, David (14 December 2011). "Watch This Brilliant Video Essay About the "Spielberg Face"". Slate.
- ^ "A symphony of voices". RogerEbert.com. 14 December 2012.
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