At a time in history when anyone with a smartphone can create a movie or countless other varieties of content, the work of Kevin B. Lee – a filmmaker and media researcher who has produced nearly 400 video essays exploring these issues – seeks to creatively explore the ever-changing intersections of film and media production, spectatorship, and storytelling.
Kevin B. Lee analyzes how new forms of overproduction and the everyday narratives of social media overturn the long-standing binaries that governed classical media. Indeed, digital media production and circulation have radically fragmented the concept of cinema. Now that moving images and media are practically in everyone’s hands and impulsively produced, the cinema of the present is constantly being produced in our minds.
Audiovisual works cited:
“Video Essay for Ecocinema Seminar. Singin’ in the Rain + Hunter Vaughan Text and Graphics Exercise,” Marlene Fischer, Tobias Deckker
“Fixing My Brain with Automated Therapy,” Jacob Geller
Untitled TikTok by heksensabbat
Untitled TikTok by nichelovercore
Untitled TikTok by diosgf.fr
“thoughts on corecore and nichetok” – TikTok by Matt Lorence
“10001 Attempts To Be an Ocean,” Wang Yuyan
