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Since January 2022, in collaboration with the Locarno Film Festival, I hold the newly created position as Professor for the Future of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts at the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) where I teach at both the Bachelor’s and Master’s levels.
I am currently working on my feature desktop documentary Afterlives, which follows Bottled songs 1-4.
From 2024 to 2026 I am the project leader of "The Video Essay: Memories, Ecologies, Bodies" a research project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), with Prof. Johannes Binotto and Dr. Evelyn Kreutzer. This research project aims to investigate the video essay as a digital media format for producing, advancing, and sharing knowledge in audiovisual forms that enable critical reflections on media processes.
Events
2025
Jan 3–5, 2025 — Expanded Screens: The Video Essay (with Will DiGravio, John Gibbs, Mara Oliva, Evelyn Kreutzer), screening series & discussion, Museum of the Moving Image, New York City, USA.
Jan 3, 2025 — Viewing with Care: Videographic Afterlives of Extremist Media, American Historical Association Annual Meeting, New York City, USA.
Apr 3, 2024 – ongoing through 2025 — Key Words for Key Films, multi-screen video essay exhibition (Curator), Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Turin, Italy.
Apr 5, 2025 — Videographic Criticism as Dissemination: Ideology of Formats, Formats of Ideology, SCMS Annual Conference, Chicago, USA.
May 6, 2025 — Les chambres obscures de l’IA #3 (with Evelyn Kreutzer, Johannes Binotto), screening event, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France.
May 8–10, 2025 — Towards a Generative Archival Practice, Ethics & Aesthetics of Artificial Images (EA-AI) Conference, Università IUAV di Venezia, Venice, Italy.
Jun 19, 2025 — Site-based Videographic Methods for Film Festival Research (with Evelyn Kreutzer, Silvia Cipelletti, Chiara Grizzaffi), NECS Conference, Lisbon, Portugal.
Aug 2025 — Guest appearance on RSI, Lugano, Switzerland: Interview/discussion on cinema & AI.
Aug 9–13, 2025 — Future of Reality (curated & led), Locarno Film Festival, Locarno, Switzerland.
Oct 3, 2025 — AI Film Now, public talk & screening on AI & film, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Lugano, Switzerland.
Oct 17, 2025 — Khartoum – Talk & Screening, Film Festival Diritti Umani, USI Auditorium, Centro Lugano, Switzerland.
Oct 24–25, 2025 — The Future of Cinema: From Locarno to LA (co-organiser), conference & screening, UCLA Film & Television Archive, Los Angeles, USA.
Lectures
Lee, Kevin B. Editor, The Future of Survival. Zürich & Berlin: Diaphanes, 2025. https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/the-future-of-survival-8420
Lee, Kevin B. — “Surviving the Future: Video essays as exploratory film festival research.” NECSUS – European Journal of Media Studies, Spring 2025. https://necsus-ejms.org/surviving-the-future-video-essays-as-exploratory-film-festival-research/
Lee, Kevin B. Guest Editor, Video Essay Dossier on Locarno Film Festival. NECSUS – European Journal of Media Studies, Spring 2025. https://necsus-ejms.org/editorial-necsus-spring-2025/
Lee, Kevin B. “Re-finding Found Footage: Encounters with the Video Essay.” In Found Footage & Collage Films: The Artist’s Voice, edited by César Ustarroz, Found Footage Magazine, March 2025.
Events
2024
Sep 30, 2024 — Lecture on AI and filmmaking, German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB), Berlin, Germany.
Nov 1, 2024 — DECODING OR RE-ENCODING? (with Johannes Binotto and Evelyn Kreutzer), video essay presentation at As We May See: Tracking and Tracing the Image after Farocki, Zurich, Switzerland.
Nov 5, 2024 — The Generative Afterlives of Problematic Archives, If AI Was the Answer, What Was the Question, Again? conference, Academy of Fine Arts Munich (AdBK), Munich, Germany.
Dec 5, 2024 — Artist Program “Kevin B. Lee”, 32nd Alternative Film/Video Festival, Belgrade, Serbia.
Dec 6, 2024 — Masterclass: Open Lecture, FMK Singidunum University, Belgrade, Serbia.