Speaking
2020
6.13 “The Unassembled.” Flaherty Film Seminar. Online address.
4.25 “Why Watch Essay Films Online?” Online panel. Docdays UA International Human Rights Documentary Festival.
3.7 Conversation with Ra’anan Alexandrowicz. Field Sessions, True/False Film Fest, Columbia Missouri.
3.5-6 PRISM Workshop, True/False Film Fest, Columbia Missouri
2.26 “CTRL+ALT+DEL: Leaving the System” Berlin Talents, Berlinale Film Festival.
1.25 “Countering Images“, Critics Choice VI closing roundtable, International Film Festival Rotterdam.
2019
11.21 “Dreams and Terrors of Desktop Documentary.” Territories of Propaganda conference, Université Paris 8.
11.8 “Exploring Farocki: Three Videographic Approaches”. Videographic Criticism conference, Technical University Braunschweg and University of Arts Braunschweig.
11.1 Illuminace Interface Symposium. Kino Ponrepo, Prague.
9.18 “Workers Leaving the Factory in Eleven Decades.” Instituto Moreira Salles, São Paulo, Brazil.
9.15 “Images Commenting on Images.” Besides the Screen Conference, Museum for Image and Sound, São Paulo, Brazil.
9.12 “Images Commenting on Images.” Besides the Screen Conference, UFES Vitória Brazil.
6.20 Dreams and Terrors of Desktop Documentary. Videographic Criticism Symposium, Frei Universität Berlin.
5.16 Video Essays. Making film heritage visible. Dok.fest Munich
5.6 “Dreams and Terrors of Desktop Documentary.” Lucerne University of Applied Arts and Sciences.
2.28 “The filmmaker of tomorrow, today.” UC Berkeley.
2.27. “Dreams and Terrors of Desktop Documentary.” Stanford University.
2.25. “Dreams and Terrors of Desktop Documentary.” Video Essay Conference, Oakland University Michigan.
2018
10.5 Workshop, “Media (Text) Rhetoric and Video Essays: Dealing Analytically and Creatively with ISIS videos. [with Chloé Galibert-Laîné and Bernd Zywietz]. Jihadi Audiovisualities Conference, Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany.
9.29 “From Eisenstein to #Screenlife.” Moscow International Experimental Film Festival.
9.17 “Bottled Songs.” Andorra Theatre, Helsinki, Finland.
9.9 “Future Innovation Summit.” Ars Electronical Festival, Linz, Austria.
9.8 “Error, Fake and Failure.” Ars Electronica Film Festival, Linz, Austria.
3.31 “Dreams and Terrors of Desktop Documentary.” Theory/Practice: Expanding Scholarship in the Age of Digital Media, Yale University.
3.23 “Conversations in Contemporary Art.” Concordia University, Montreal.
3.19 “Beyond Filmsplaining: Exploring Gender Dynamics in the Video Essay.” Smith College.
3.17 “Transactions and Translations of World Cinema: Videographic Approaches.” Panel Respondent, Society of Cinema and Media Studies Annual Meeting, Toronto.
2.20 “Visual Storytelling.” Berlinale Talents, Berlin International Film Festival.
2.13 Keynote Address: “Dreams and Terrors of Desktop Documentary.” Film und Fernsehwissenschaftliches Kolloquium, Ruhr-Universitat, Bochum Germany.
2017
10.21 “Desktop Intervention.” Harun Farocki Academy, Berlin.
9.30 “Co-Presence With the Camera.” University of California at Davis.
9.28 “A Brief History of Video Essays.” University of Miami at Ohio.
9.26 “A Brief History of Video Essays.” State University of New York at Purchase.
9.25 “What Makes a Video Essay Great?” Middlebury College, Vermont.9.22 Keynote Address: “Viewing Under Surveillance.” Documentary Symposium, Temple University.
9.20 “A Brief History of Video Essays.” Columbia University Film Seminar.
6.9 “Reformatting and Recontextualizing Content.” Deutsches Filminstitut, Hamburg International Short Film Festival, Hamburg, Germany.
5.30 “10th Anniversary of the Video Essay.” Merz Akademie, Stuttgart, Germany.
5.16 “Desktop Documentary and Curation.” Museum of Contemporary Art (GfZK), Leipzig, Germany.
4.23 “Life Navigation.” Roaming Assemby Symposium, Dutch Art Institute, Arnhem, Netherlands.
4.14 “Martyrs for the Mass.” Visual Practices Symposium, University of California, Davis, CA.
4.5 “A Brief History of Video Essays.” Werkleitz, Halle, Germany.
4.2 Keynote Lecture, Videographic Film Studies Workshop. University of Reading, UK.
3.30 “Critique, Protest, Activism and the Video Essay.” Essay Film Festival, Institute for Contemporary Art, London, UK.
3.13 “Light Typing Lecture.” University of California, Davis.
3.08 “L’Art de l’observateur distrait / The art of the Distracted Observer.” École normale superieure, Paris.
3.06 “Post-Cinema.” École normale superieure, Paris.
2.06 “The Bottled Songs of Lost Children.” Frei Universitat, Berlin, Germany.
1.14 “Light Typing Lecture.” Harun Farocki Institut, silent green, Berlin, Germany.
1.12 “Shucking the Oyster Princess: Live Video Essay Cooking Class.” Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt, Germany.
1.10 “The Next Big Thing: You Don’t Get To 5 Million Facebook Views Without Making a Few Compromises.” Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany.
2016
12.10 “Aesthetics of Analysis.” Other Cinema, San Francisco, CA.
12.8 “Light Typing Lecture.” Poetry Theater Festival, Chicago, IL.
8.10 “Cultures of Criticism in the Digital Age.” Locarno International Film Festival, Locarno, Switzerland.
6.22 “Indefinite Visions symposium.” Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK.
4.19 “Masterclass on video essays.” University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
4.09 “Masterclass on video essays, NexT International Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania.
2.29 “Videographic Film Criticism and the Video Essay.” Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
2.27 “The Art of the Video Essay.” Williams College, Williamstown, MA.
2.15 “In Reference to Video Essays.” Berlin International Film Festival, Berlin, Germany.
1.31 “Whose Cinema? Critics Choice.” Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
2015
10.13 “The Art of the Video Essay.” University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
9.22 “Kevin B. Lee and the Video Essay.” Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA.
8.06 “Video Essay Masterclass.” Melbourne International Film Festival, Melbourne, Australia.
3.28 "What Farocki Teaches." Society of Cinema and Media Studies Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada.
3.06 "The New Chinese Nonfiction." True/False Film Fest, Columbia, MO .
3.17 "Desktop Documentary.” University of Sussex, Sussex, UK.
3.14 "On the Video Essay." Glasgow International Short Film Festival, Glasgow, UK.
3.13 “Desktop Documentary.” Glasgow International Short Film Festival, Glasgow, UK.
2.13 "Media, Art and Law.” Sullivan Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
1.30 “The Return of Critics Choice.” Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
2014
11.26 "Desktop Documentary." Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany .
11.24 "The Next Big Thing: Transformers: The Premake, Screen Transformations of the New Desktop Cinema.” Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany.
6.07 “The Future of Film Criticism.” Seattle International Film Festival.
2.26 “Digital Journalism.” True/False Film Festival, Columbia MO.
2013
4.20 "The Art of the Video Essay." Roger Ebert Film Festival, Urbana‐Champaign, Illinois.
2012
11.08 “Reflexivity and the Small Form.” University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL.
4.27 “Teaching Cinema On TV and the Web.” Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany.
2010
4.17 “Chinese Independent Cinema.” Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA.