Video Essays for International Film Festival Rotterdam

“Ever since the International Film Festival Rotterdam Critics Choice re-inauguration in 2015, Kevin has been a participant of the program… His essays so far can serve as a case study on the way the form (and the economic reality around it) has changed in the past several years.”

Video essays commissioned by Dana Linssen and Jan-Pieter Ekker for the IFFR Critics Choice program:

To The Lighthouse (Dafoe vs Pattinson)
2020 IFFR Critics Choice VI: On Collecivity
Screened with The Lighthouse by Robert Eggers

Re-enacting the Future  (with Chloé Galibert Laîné)
2019 IFFR Critics Choice V: Absence
Screened with I Do Not Care If We Go Down In History as Barbarians by Radu Jude

Reading // Binging // Benning (with Chloé Galibert Laîné)
2018 IFFR Critics Choice IV: Sustainable Film Criticism
Screened with Readers by James Benning

Not Another Camelot
2017 IFFR Critics Choice
Screened with Jackie by Pablo Larraín

Right Now Then Wrong
2016: IFFR Critics Choice: Whose Cinema?
Screened with Right Now Wrong Then by Hong Sang-soo

An International Tribute to Roger Ebert
2015 IFFR Critics Choice
Screened with Life Itself by Steve James