The CCAM is pleased to welcome Kevin B. Lee as a part of the Theory/Practice Symposium presented by the Whitney Humanities Center. Lee is a filmmaker, journalist, and critic who has made over 360 video essays exploring film and media. His award-winning “Transformers: The Premake” pioneered the “desktop documentary” form and was named one of the best documentaries of 2014 by Sight & Sound Magazine. His work has screened at international venues such as the Rotterdam International Film Festival, the Viennale, the Berlin Film Festival Critics Week, the Austrian Film Museum, the Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of the Moving Image. In 2017 he was the first Artist in Residence of the Harun Farocki Institute in Berlin. He was Founding Editor and Chief Video Essayist at Fandor, supervising producer at Roger Ebert Presents At the Movies, and has written for The New York Times, Sight & Sound, Slate and Indiewire. He teaches at the Merz Akademie in Stuttgart, where he is launching a new Cross Media Publishing curriculum.

This lecture will take place in CCAM (149 York) Room 110, seating is limited.