Kevin B. Lee Movies

The mind process behind the film, Transformers the Premake, explained by Kevin B Lee himself.

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...

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...

Bottled Songs is an ongoing media project depicting strategies for making sense of online terrorist propaganda. Filmmakers and media researchers...

A video essay collaboration on Jacques Rivette's Out 1, produced by Kevin B. Lee using messages received by film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum.

Two researchers investigate the dissemination of propaganda created by the terrorist organization known as the Islamic State and contemplate the...

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...

Premiered at the 2017 Locarno International Film Festival.

A video essay by Chloé Galibert-Laîné and Kevin B. Lee. Commissioned by Dana Linssen and Jan Pieter Ekker for Critics Choice V:...

‘Kevin’s piece on his childhood experiences with the film Platoon are an example of the very power of cinema to shape our relationship...

Transformers: Age of Extinction, the fourth installment of the Transformers movie franchise directed by Michael Bay, will be released June 27 2014....

A portrait of the influential American film critic.

This video presents Chapters 3 and 4 from the series. « The Spokesman » (aka « A Guide to be driven ») investigates the...

“The film [Right Now Then Wrong] is really fascinating — it is basically the same story told twice, back to back, and the thing I really...

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.'

Five decades of Harun Farocki's film and video material are transformed into an audiovisual vocabulary, teaching key Farockian concepts from A to Z....

Kevin analyzes a video described as the “first feature film” produced by ISIS. Struck by the mainstream media’s fascination with...

How much can you see of a movie you can't see? A speculative video essay on the film READERS by James Benning.

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.

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...