Kevin B. Lee Movies
- 2017
What I Learned at the Harun Farocki Residency
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In this video I share my experience as the first Resident of the Harun Farocki Institut in Berlin during the winter of 2016-2017. Produced for the...
- 2020
The Making of Transformers the Premake
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The mind process behind the film, Transformers the Premake, explained by Kevin B Lee himself.
- 2017
#movieofmylife
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Premiered at the 2017 Locarno International Film Festival.
- 2014
Transformers: The Premake
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Transformers: Age of Extinction, the fourth installment of the Transformers movie franchise directed by Michael Bay, will be released June 27 2014....
- 2020
Once Upon a Screen, Explosive Paradox
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‘Kevin’s piece on his childhood experiences with the film Platoon are an example of the very power of cinema to shape our relationship...
- 2017
Playing Cinema with Lori Felker
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On the Chicago filmmaker's exuberant approach to the medium. As Lori says, 'You may never find an answer, because playing is the best part.'
- 2019
Watching the Pain of Others
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In this deeply personal video diary, a young researcher tries to make sense of her fascination for the film "The Pain of Others" by Penny Lane. A...
- 2021
Bottled Songs 1-4
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Bottled Songs is an ongoing media project depicting strategies for making sense of online terrorist propaganda. Filmmakers and media researchers...
- 2019
Re-enacting the Future
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A video essay by Chloé Galibert-Laîné and Kevin B. Lee. Commissioned by Dana Linssen and Jan Pieter Ekker for Critics Choice V:...
- 2018
Reading Binging Benning
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How much can you see of a movie you can't see? A speculative video essay on the film READERS by James Benning.
- 2017
Bottled Songs: The Spokesman
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Kevin investigates the online traces of a British news reporter who was kidnapped and appeared in several Islamic State propaganda videos.
- 2020
Harun Farocki: Lexicon
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Five decades of Harun Farocki's film and video material are transformed into an audiovisual vocabulary, teaching key Farockian concepts from A to Z....
- 2020
Bottled Songs 1 & 2
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Two researchers investigate the dissemination of propaganda created by the terrorist organization known as the Islamic State and contemplate the...
- 2013
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Present
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A portrait of the influential American film critic.
- 2020
Harun Farocki: The Counter-Image
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This desktop investigation asks: how can one begin to learn about Farocki? Starting with a naive search for his name online, this film scans over his...
- 2020
Harun Farocki: Presented
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What can be learned from watching only the moments when an artist appears in his own work? Harun Farocki appears in 24 of his own films; his time on...
- 2018
Bottled Songs 3 & 4
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This video presents Chapters 3 and 4 from the series. « The Spokesman » (aka « A Guide to be driven ») investigates the...
- 2020
Bottled Songs: Looking Into the Flames
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Kevin analyzes a video described as the “first feature film” produced by ISIS. Struck by the mainstream media’s fascination with...
- 2021
Our Focus
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Video essay on the work of Jia Zhangke by Kevin B. Lee, specially commissioned by Eye Filmmuseum and IFFR as a response to the installation Close-Up.
- 2014
Out 1: Solitaire
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A video essay collaboration on Jacques Rivette's Out 1, produced by Kevin B. Lee using messages received by film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum.