Cellular Cinema

Kevin B. Lee's Website

Kevin B. Lee is a filmmaker, media artist, and critic. He has produced over 360 video essays exploring film and media.

His award-winning Transformers: The Premake introduced the “desktop documentary” format, was named one of the best documentaries of 2014 by Sight & Sound and screened in many festivals including Berlin Critics Week, Rotterdam International Film Festival and Viennale International Film Festival.

Through Bottled Songs, his collaborative project with Chloé Galibert-Laîné, he was awarded the 2018 Sundance Institute Art of Nonfiction Grant, the 2018 European Media Artist Platform Residency, and the 2019 Eurimages Lab Project Award at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.

He was 2017 Artist in Residence of the Harun Farocki Institut in Berlin.  In 2019 he produced “Learning Farocki”, a series of video essays on Harun Farocki, commissioned by the Goethe Institut. In 2020 he is co-curating the Black Lives Matter Video Essay Playlist with Will DiGravio and Cydnii Wilde Harris.

He was Founding Editor and Chief Video Essayist at Fandor from 2011-2016, supervising producer at
 Roger Ebert Presents At the Movies, and has written for The New York Times, Sight & Sound, Slate and Indiewire. He is Professor of Crossmedia Publishing at Merz Akademie, Stuttgart.

Kym McDaniel's Vimeo Page

In this episode we discuss Kym's recent short experimental video series entitled "Exit Strategies."

Kym McDaniel is an experimental filmmaker, media collaborator, choreographer, and performer. Her films have shown at Slamdance, Antimatter, Chicago Underground Film Festival, ADF’s Movies by Movers, and selected exhibitions at the Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University, and the London Bow Arts Gallery, among others.

https://www.kymmcdaniel.com/

Her practice is rooted in somatic-based inquiry and energetic movement rituals. She has a BFA in Contemporary Performance & Choreography, and a BA in Psychology. Her training in the Alexander Technique has largely influenced my process both as an artist and educator. She studied Film, Video, Animation, and New Genres at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she graduated with my MFA in 2018. She currently teaches in the Cinema Department at Binghamton University.

Travis Wilkerson's Vimeo Page

A conversation with Travis Wilkerson about his films Machine Gun or Typewriter, Did You Ever Wonder Who Fired The Gun and An Injury to One. Recorded on March 26, 2020.

Travis Wilkerson is an American independent film director, screenwriter, producer and performance artist. Named the "political conscience of 21st century American independent cinema," by Sight & Sound Magazine, Wilkerson is heavily influenced by the Third Cinema movement, and known for films that combine "maximalist aesthetics and radical politics." This is owed, in part, to his meeting Cuban filmmaker Santiago Álvarez.