Kevin B. Lee
Known for
Directing
Born
October 1, 1975 (age 51)
Birthplace
United States of America
Biography
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 Fi...
Best known work
Transformers: The Premake
2014
Afterlives
2025
Watching the Pain of Others
2019
Bottled Songs 1-4
2021
The Making of Transformers the Premake
2020
Once Upon a Screen, Explosive Paradox
2020What Makes a Video Essay Great?
2014
Our Focus
2021Jonathan Rosenbaum, Present
2013Bottled Songs: Looking Into the Flames
2020Filmography
2025
AfterlivesDirector, Writer, Editor
2021
Bottled Songs 1-4Writer, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor, Production Design, Sound Designer, Director
2021
Our FocusDirector
2020
2020
Once Upon a Screen, Explosive Paradoxas Self, Director
2020
2020
2020
Bottled Songs 1 & 2Director
2020
Harun Farocki: The Counter-ImageDirector
2020
Harun Farocki: LexiconDirector
2020
Harun Farocki: PresentedDirector
2019
2019
Re-enacting the FutureDirector, Writer
2018
Reading Binging BenningDirector
2018
Bottled Songs 3 & 4Director
2017
Playing Cinema with Lori FelkerDirector
2017
Bottled Songs: The SpokesmanDirector
2017
#movieofmylifeDirector
2017
2016
Right Now Then WrongDirector
2014
What Makes a Video Essay Great?as Narrator, Director, Writer, Editor
2014
Transformers: The PremakeDirector, Writer, Producer, Editor
2014
Out 1: SolitaireDirector
2013
2013
Jonathan Rosenbaum, PresentProducer, Editor, Camera Operator