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Kevin B. Lee

​​Kevin B. Lee 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.

He was Founding Editor and Chief Video Essayist at Fandor from 2011-2016, supervising producer at
 Roger Ebert Presents At the Movies, and has written for The New York Times, Sight & Sound, Slate and Indiewire. He is Professor of the Future of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts at Università della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano in collaboration with the Locarno Film Festival.

Selected movie

Kevin B. Lee

AFTERLIVES

2025 /
88 min /
Germany
France
Belgium

In his first feature-length desktop documentary, Kevin B. Lee examines the traces of extremist propaganda. Through encounters with an artist, an activist, and a researcher, Afterlives shows how people reclaim these images as tools for insight and resistance, offering ways to find meaning in today’s flood of online violence.

Afterlives is one of the most singular films of this festival’s edition: the chronicle of an almost academic research project that unfolds in real time before our eyes. Kevin B. Lee masterfully applies
the desktop documentary format that he had already explored in previous
works, now finally in a feature film. A must-watch for video
essay fans.

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Official Competition - Visions