2025

Afterlives. Feature film. 2025, 85 minutes, digital video 

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., and Silvia Cipelletti. “Investigating Ecocinema through the Video Essay: Videographic Scholarship As an Environmental Media Studies Pedagogy.” Academic Quarter | Akademisk Kvarter, nr. 28 (September 2025): 57–64.

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.

2024

Lee, Kevin B., og Silvia Cipelletti. “Investigating Ecocinema through the Video Essay: Videographic Scholarship As an Environmental Media Studies Pedagogy”. Academic Quarter | Akademisk Kvarter, nr. 27 :113-29. August 2024

“How to Reflect on Desktop Tutorial” published in Counter Tutorials, Corinne Mazzoli, Krisis Publishing, May 2024

“The video essay as an emerging ecocinema practice” , Wdk magazine, February 2024

2023

Suher, Dylan. “Finding a Home for the Video Essay: Videographic Criticism and the Study of Chinese Television Drama.” Journal of Chinese Cinemas 17 (2023).

*-“Disaffection Image.” Author unknown. Submitted to [in]Transition Journal for Videographic Film and Media Studies, 2023. 

Lee, Kevin B. “Poll position: Past masters.” Sight & Sound, Winter 2023/2024. Retrieved from https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/poll-position-past-masters. Parte della serie Sight & Sound Poll

Lee, Kevin B. “Poll position: The two top tens.” Sight & Sound, December 2023. Retrieved from https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/poll-position-two-top-tens. Parte della serie Sight & Sound Poll

Lee, Kevin B. “Poll position: An eco cinematic future.” Sight & Sound, November 2023. Retrieved from https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/poll-position-ecocinematic-future. Parte della serie Sight & Sound Poll

Lee, Kevin B. “Poll position: A speculative syllabus.” Sight & Sound, October 2023. Retrieved from https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/poll-position-speculative-syllabus. Parte della serie Sight & Sound Poll

Lee, Kevin B. “Poll position: Canon events.” Sight & Sound, September 2023. Retrieved from https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/poll-position-canon-events. Parte della serie Sight & Sound Poll

Lee, Kevin B. “Poll position: ‘Of its time’ or ‘of all time’?.” Sight & Sound, July 2023. Retrieved from https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/poll-position-its-time-or-all-time. Parte della serie Sight & Sound Poll.

Lee, Kevin B. “Poll position: A global cinematic canon.” Sight & Sound, June 2023. Retrieved from https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/poll-position-global-cinematic-canon. Parte della serie Sight & Sound Poll

Lee, Kevin B. “Poll position: A significant shake-up.” Sight & Sound, May 2023. Retrieved from https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/poll-position-significant-shake. Parte della serie Sight & Sound Poll

“Desktop Documentary: From Artefact to Artist(ic) Emotions”, co-written with Ariel Avissar. NECSUS_European Journal of Media Studies, 12.1, June 7 2023

2022

“Critical Spectatorship, Violent Care” for Rosa Mercedes: Mit Farocki, the 6th edition of the Rosa Mercedes Online Journal from the Harun Farocki Institute, September 21 2022.

Author unknown. “Green Screens: The Materiality and Environmental Impact of the Desktop Film.” Submitted to Imago. Studi di Cinema e Media / Imago. Film and Media Studies (2022).

Lee, Kevin B. “Green Screens: The Materiality and Environmental Impact of the Desktop Film.” Review of Author unknown. Submitted to Imago. Studi di cinema e media / Imago. Film and Media Studies, 2022. Recensione (Rilevante per il Progetto)

“Suture Goes Meta: Desktop Documentary and its Narrativization of Screen-Mediated Experience” (with Jiří Anger) article in Quarterly Review of Film and Video, February 21 2022

2021

Lee, Kevin B. Orders of Time and Motion. 2021, 20 minutes, digital video. Commissioned for the Arbelos Films Blu-Ray Release of Sátántangó. Commissione Video

-Lee, Kevin B. “A Videographic Future beyond Film.” NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies, Autumn 2021. https://necsus-ejms.org/a-videographic-future-beyond-film/.

Lee, Kevin B. Our Focus. Short film, 9 minutes, digital video. 2021. Commissioned for “Vive le cinéma! Art & Film”exhibition, Eye Museum and International Film Festival Rotterdam.

2020

Lee, Kevin B. “New Audiovisual Vernaculars of Scholarship.” The Cine-Files, no. 15 (Fall 2020). Accessed May 12, 2025. https://www.thecine-files.com/new-audiovisual-vernaculars-of-scholarship/.

“A Boundless Expanse.” Essay on the film Purple Sea published in London Open City Documentary Festival catalog. August 2020.

“Medienakteure. Parallele Fragmente” (“Media Agents, Parallel Fragments”) chapter published in Propaganda des ‘Islamischen Staats’: Formen und Formate (“The Islamic State: Forms and Formats”) ed. Bernd Zywietz, published by Verlag Springer VS. July 2020.

“Instrument of Reflection: A Study in Smartphone Filming” published in Performance Matters Vol. 6 No. 1, eds. Lynette Hunter, Alex Lichtenfels, Heather Nolan, John Zibell. June 24 2020.

Lee, Kevin B. “Kino-Perspektiven: Das Video Essay als Mediale Kritik.” Interviewed by Johannes Duncker. Filmszene Köln, June 15, 2020. https://filmszene.koeln/2020/06/15/kinoperspektiven-das-video-essay-als-mediale-kritik/

Lee, Kevin B. “Moving in Every Direction: Künstlerische Forschung als Beitrag zur Entwicklung aktueller Raumkonfigurationen für das bewegte Bild.” SNSF Project Application 100013_197750 (2020).

Lee, Kevin B. Once Upon a Screen: Explosive Paradox. Short film, 9 minutes, digital video. 2020. Voted Best Video Essay of 2020 in an international poll conducted by Sight & Sound Magazine. Screened at Open City London Documentary Festival.

2019

“Troubling the Desktop.” (with Chloé Galibert-Laîné). Filmmaker, March 14 2019.

2017

“Critique, Protest, Activism and the Video Essay,” Institute for Contemporary Arts, London. March 30 2017.

Harun Farocki Institut Residency Blog. January 1 – March 31 2017.

2016

“Decoding or Re- Encoding?” published in Malte Hagener, Vincenz Hediger, Alena Strohmaier (Eds.), The State of Post- Cinema: Tracing the Moving Image. Palgrave Macmillan. 2016.

“Active Encounters: A Conversation Between Alejandro Bachmann and Kevin B. Lee,” Found Footage Magazine, Issue No. 3, 2016.

“Conversation with Kevin B. Lee and Eric Faden.” In Christian Keathley, Jason Mittel (Eds.), The Videographic Essay: Criticism in Sound and Image. 2016. Caboose.

2014

“Pre-Making a Chinese Hollywood Blockbuster: Transcultural Flows and the Culture of Anticipation in Transformers: Age of Extinction.” Incite! Fall 2014

“What I Learned About Hollywood by Shooting a Guerrilla Documentary About the Next Transformers Movie.” Slate, June 18 2014

“The Audiovisual Essay.” [in]Transition Journal for Videographic Film Studies, March 1 2014

“The Gender Gap in Film.” New York Times, Feb 27 2014.

2013

“The Essay Film: Some Thoughts of Discontent.” Sight & Sound, Sep 7 2013

“Containing Possibilities: The founding history of dGenerate Films.” (“Kontraintuitiver Möglichkeitssinn. Die Gründungsgeschichtedes Distributionslabels dGenerate films.”) In: Lukas Foerster, Nikolaus Perneczky, Fabian Tietke, Cecilia Valenti (Eds.): Traces of a Third Cinema: The Aesthetics, Politics and Economy of World Cinema (Spuren eines Dritten Kinos. Zu Ästhetik, Politik und Ökonomie des World Cinema), Bielefeld: 2013, S. 79-85.

“Argo, F—k Yourself.” Slate, Feb 25, 2013

2012

“What the Sikhs Taught Me.” Slate, Aug 8 2012

“The Time To Live and The Time to Die” CTEQ Annotations on Film, Senses of Cinema, February 2006

“Jia Zhangke.” Great Directors Biography, Senses of Cinema, March 2003