Kevin B. Lee Movies

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

Premiered at the 2017 Locarno International Film Festival.

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...

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.'

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

Kevin investigates the online traces of a British news reporter who was kidnapped and appeared in several Islamic State propaganda videos.

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

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

“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...

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.

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

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

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...

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