Selected Writing

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

“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

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

“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.

“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

“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.

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

“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.

“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.

“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.

“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

“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