Kevin B. Lee is a filmmaker and media researcher who has produced nearly 400 video essays exploring film and media. His award-win- ning Transformers: The Premake introduced the “desktop documen- tary” format. His work has screened at the Museum of Modern Art, Berlinale, and International Film Festival Rotterdam, as well as on websites such as those of the New York Times and Mubi. He is the Lo- carno Film Festival Professor for the Future of Cinema and the Au- diovisual Arts at Università della Svizzera italiana (USI). He co-leads the Swiss National Science Foundation research project “The Video Essay: Memories, Ecologies, Bodies.”