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Join "one of the brightest film critics working today" (Roger Ebert), Kevin B Lee (Transformers: The Premake), as he discusses the craft of the video essay with Chris Luscri.
Kevin B Lee is Chief Video Essayist at Fandor. He has made over 250 video essays exploring film and media. His award-winning Transformers: The Premake was named one of the best documentaries of 2014 by Sight & Sound magazine and played in several festivals including the Berlin Film Festival Critics' Week. He was supervising producer at Roger Ebert Presents At the Movies, and has written for The New York Times, Sight & Sound, Slate and Indiewire. Follow him on Twitter at @alsolikelife.
Chris Luscri is a film-maker and (nascent) curator. His recent work includes commissioning the ongoing audiovisual-essay series Out 1 Video Essay Project (with contributions by Kevin B Lee & Jonathan Rosenbaum, Cristina Álvarez López & Adrian Martin, David Heslin & himself), and curating a program of "vertical screen" works for the Adelaide Film Festival. He is currently working on a long-form essay-documentary on Italian-Australian migrant film-maker Giorgio Mangiamele.