Selected Press

2023

“Nourished by Time: Facing the Future of Cinema with Locarno's Kevin B. Lee”, Arta Barzanji, MUBI, Oct 26

“Where next for cinema?” , Geoffrey Macnab. Screen International. p.16-17, Aug

“I film dell’intelligenza artificiale”. Interview with LaRegione, Jul 17

Video Essay "99 Attempts to Know EO" mentioned in "All the world’s a stage IFFR Critics’ Choice 9: PLAY" , Tara Judah, Senses of Cinema, May

"How Can One Be Farocki?" Rembert Hueser, New Perspectives on Academic Writing, ed. Bernd Herzogenrath. Bloomsbury. Pages 85-98, May

“Le immagini sono il vero linguaggio comunicativo dei giovani e del futuro,” Viviana Viri, Corriere del Ticino, Mar 10

“L’intelligenza artificiale ci sta trasformando,” Ticino Digital Business, Feb 6

2022

“Was bringt jetzt diese ästhetische Nostalgie?”, interview with Florian Keller, WOZ: Die Wochenzeitung Nr. 32, Aug 11

“Kevin B. Lee Talks Future Challenges of Film Exhibition, Attention Economics at Locarno”, Davide Abbatescianni, Celluloid Junkie, Aug 19

2020

“KinoPerspektiven: Das Video-Essay als mediale Kritik,” Johannes Duncker, Filmszene Köln, Jun 15

2018        

“Long Future, Short Films - Three Questions for Kevin B. Lee.” Miniflix, Nov 19

“La sideration selon Steven Spielberg,” Gabriel Coutagne, Le Monde, Feb 11 

2017        

“The Cinematic Power of the Individual.” Video interview with Jacqueline Beck of FilmExplorer, November

“The Video Essay: More Discourse Than Terminology,” Dennis Vetter, ShortFilm.de, Sep 13

“Der Video-Essayist Kevin B. Lee: M​edienkritik mit Transformers,” Andreas Busche, Der Tagesspiegel, Feb 2 

“​Superstars der Filmkritik. Video-Essayisten – Gute Filme teilen sich mit“, Philipp Bovermann, Süddeutschen Zeitung, Jan 4 

2016        

“Desktop Movies,” Cahiers du Cinema, November

“Aggregate States of the Moving Image,” Volker Pantenburg, “Re-Mediating the Cinematic Experience,” Vienna, Oct 7

2015        

“Film criticism, film scholarship and the video essay,” Andrew McWhirter, Screen, Autumn 

“From a Voyage to the North Sea to a Passage to the North-West; Journeys Across the Contaminated Histories of Art and Film,” Miriam da Rosa, Filmforum, Mar 19

2014        

“The Art Institute of Chicago's Video Collection Is on YouTube." Chicago Tribune, Dec 26

“Desktop-Arbeit,” Simon Rothohler, Merkur, August

Transformers: The Premake’ makes Chicago critic a filmmaker” Chicago Tribune, Jun 18

 “Transforming Phone Video Into Publicity and a Film.” The New York Times, Jun 14