Kevin B. Lee

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Born1975
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipUnited States of America
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  • Critic

Kevin B. Lee (born 1975) is an American filmmaker and critic.[1] He is considered by many to be one of the most prominent and prolific contributors to the video essay genre.[2][3] He is also recognised as a pioneer of the Screenlife.[4] [5] [6]

Biography

Lee started making short film and documentary in the 2000s with a strong interest in Asian and Asian American topics, such as Dastaar: Defending Sikh Identity (2004), an examination of the challenges facing the Sikh community post-9/11.[7] In 2008 he co-founded dGenerate Films, a distributor of independent films from China.[8] Five years later he curated the first retrospective of Chinese independent documentary cinema at the Museum of Modern Art.[9] He also wrote criticism for a range of publications, such as the New York Times, Sight & Sound, Slate (magazine), Indiewire and Mubi (streaming service).[10] [11] [12] In 2011 he was supervising producer for the U.S. nationally televised show Ebert Presents: At the Movies.[13] In 2017 he became the first Artist in Residence of the Harun Farocki Institut in Berlin.[14]. That same year he was appointed professor for the new field of study Crossmedia Publishing at Merz Akademie in Stuttgart.[15] In 2021 he was appointed the Locarno Film Festival Professor for the Future of Cinema and the Audiovisual Arts at the Università della Svizzera italiana.[16]

Video Essays and Desktop Documentary

In 2007 Lee began to produce video essay on his blog and YouTube channel.[17] Since, he has produced over 360 video essays exploring film and media.[18]. His 2011 video essay The Spielberg Face received extensive attention in the media.[19] [20] [21] In 2016 the Austrian Film Museum exhibited a retrospective of Lee's work entitled Aesthetics of Analysis (orig. "Ästhetik der Analyse") which considered the video essay as a substantial cinematic form with its own stylistic dimensions.[22][23] While pursuing his Masters degree at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Lee produced Transformers: The Premake (2014) which introduced the desktop documentary format.[24] He is considered an authority on the form, lecturing frequently on the topic.[25] From 2011 to early 2017 he was Founding Editor and Chief Video Essayist at Fandor until he resigned in response to a controversial action of the company.[26] He is co-director of Bottled Songs 1-4, a collaborative desktop documentary project with Chloé Galibert-Laîné.[14] [27] In 2018 Lee and Galibert-Laîné were awarded the Sundance Institute Art of Nonfiction Award. [28], and their video essay Reading // Binging // Benning received the most mentions in the Sight & Sound poll of the year's best video essays. [29] In 2020 Lee co-curated the Black Lives Matter Video Essay Playlist[30], whose selections were screened at film festivals.[31]. Lee's video essay Once Upon a Screen: Explosive Paradox received the most mentions in the 2020 Sight & Sound video essay poll.[32]

Select Filmography

  • 2020: Once Upon a Screen: Explosive Paradox
  • 2019: Learning Farocki: The Counter Image; Lexicon; Presented
  • 2018: Bottled Songs 1-4
  • 2018: Reading // Binging // Benning
  • 2017: #movieofmylife
  • 2016: Right Now Then Wrong
  • 2014: Transformers: The Premake
  • 2011: The Spielberg Face
  • 2004: Dastaar: Defending Sikh Identity

References

  1. ↑ "Kevin B. Lee". International Film Festival Rotterdam.
  2. ↑ "Kevin B. Lee: Videographic Film Criticism and the Video Essay". Harvard University. 2016-02-19.
  3. ↑ "In Reference to: Visual Essays". Berlinale Talents.
  4. ↑ Kiss, Miklos (2021-05-16). "Desktop Documentary: From artefact to artistic emotions". NECSUS European Journal of Media Studies.
  5. ↑ "Desktop Documentary". Filmscalpel.
  6. ↑ Grant, Catherine (2015-04-06). "On Desktop Documentary (or, Kevin B. Lee Goes Meta!". Film Studies for Free.
  7. ↑ "Dastaar: Defending Sikh Identity". Sikh Coalition.
  8. ↑ Landreth, Jonathan (2012-09-10). "Indie Filmmakers Feel Heavy Hand of Beijing". New York Times.
  9. ↑ "Chinese Realities/Documentary Visions | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art.
  10. ↑ "Kevin B. Lee". Sight & Sound.
  11. ↑ "Notebook Author: Kevin B. Lee". Mubi.
  12. ↑ "Kevin B. Lee". Dutch Art Institute.
  13. ↑ "Kevin Lee: South Korean Cinema -- Ebert Presents". Ebert Presents: At the Movies.
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 "[First] HaFI residency fellow: Kevin B. Lee / 2016". Harun Farocki Institut.
  15. ↑ "Kevin B. Lee appointed professor for Crossmedia Publishing at Merz Akademie Stuttgart". Art and Education. 2017-09-12.
  16. ↑ "The Locarno Film Festival with USI Università della Svizzera italiana: Kevin B. Lee (USA) is to be the Locarno Film Festival Professor for the Future of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts". Locarno Film Festival. 2021-08-02.
  17. ↑ "The Videographic Essay: In Dialogue: Eric Faden and Kevin B. Lee". The Videographic Essay: Practice and Pedagogy.
  18. ↑ "Images Studying Images: Kevin B. Lee on Harun Farocki". Open City Documentary Festival.
  19. ↑ Ryzik, Melena (2011-12-19). "Staring in Awe? It's 'the Spielberg Face'". New York Times.
  20. ↑ Haglund, David (2011-12-14). "Watch This Brilliant Video Essay About the "Spielberg Face"". Slate Magazine.
  21. ↑ Scott, A.O. (2012-12-26). "Spielbergian, on a Budget". New York Times.
  22. ↑ "The Aesthetics of Analysis". Austrian Film Museum.
  23. ↑ "Kevin B. Lee". Filmbulletin - Zeitschrift für Film und Kino.
  24. ↑ Buckley, Cara (2014-06-16). "Transforming Phone Video Into Publicity and a Film". New York Times.
  25. ↑ "Desktop Docs". Bertha DocHouse.
  26. ↑ Trocan, Irina (2017-03-24). "Kevin B. Lee in Plain Text — Photogénie". Cinea.
  27. ↑ "Bottled Songs 1-4". International Film Festival Rotterdam.
  28. ↑ "Sundance Institute Names 2018 Art of Nonfiction Fellows and Grantees". Sundance Institute.
  29. ↑ Verdeure, David (2020-01-10). "The best video essays of 2018". Sight & Sound.
  30. ↑ Wilde Harris, Cydnii (2020-08-13). "Video Essays That Address Race, Inequality, and the Movement for Black Lives". Hyperallergic.
  31. ↑ "Seen and Heard: Selections from the Black Lives Matter Video Essay Playlist". Open City Documentary Festival.
  32. ↑ Avissar, Ariel (2020-12-26). "The best video essays of 2020". Sight & Sound.

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