[EFF17S13] Session 13: “Critique, Protest, Activism and the Video Essay”, a lecture-performance by Kevin B. Lee

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http://eprints.org/relation/isVersionOf https://researchdata.bbk.ac.uk/id/document/1855 http://eprints.org/relation/isVolatileVersionOf https://researchdata.bbk.ac.uk/id/document/1855 http://eprints.org/relation/issmallThumbnailVersionOf https://researchdata.bbk.ac.uk/id/document/1855 archive 152 disk0/00/00/02/81 2026-08-11 14:48:41 2026-08-11 14:48:41 2026-08-11 14:48:41 data_collection show Temple Michael Birkbeck Barrington Matthew Birkbeck http://www.loc.gov/loc.terms/relators/CLB McCabe Janet 0000-0002-2916-9876 http://www.loc.gov/loc.terms/relators/CLB Yapp Emma 0000-0002-2646-6066 [EFF17S13] Session 13: “Critique, Protest, Activism and the Video Essay”, a lecture-performance by Kevin B. Lee CACC mcs public 30 March 2017, 20:30, ICA Cinema The current social and political environment demands a moment of urgent reckoning for the audiovisual essay, whether it is practiced by artists, scholars, or everyday video-makers: How can or should it address the current crises facing the world? Kevin B. Lee’s work has pondered this question, in the past, through video essays on filmic forms of social protest and dissent. But at what point do audiovisual studies of works of activism become activist works in their own right? How do criticism and activism co-exist, and possibly inform and nurture the other? In this special lecture-performance, Lee explored these questions by showing and discussing a range of recent audiovisual essays that engage with a social and political consciousness, including Steven Boone’s Snake Oil for N—–town Fever, which uses Roger Corman’s The Intruder as a blueprint for diagnosing the prevailing logic of Trumpism; Kiera Sandusky’s Problems with the Gendered POV Shot in Lilya 4-Ever, which examines the problematic outcome when a mainstream film is used for social education purposes; and extracts from Lee and filmmaker-scholar Chloé Galibert-Laîné’s ongoing research project about videos produced and circulated by the Islamic State. Films: Sight & Sound Film Poll: Nicole Brenez on La hora de los hornos/The Hour of the Furnaces, Kevin B. Lee, 2012, digital, 8 minutes Produced for Sight & Sound magazine’s international poll of the greatest films ever made, this video adapts Nicole Brenez’s argument for the poll to give greater consideration to political films, as well as to the politics of filmmaking. Real Film Radicals, Kevin B. Lee, 2013, digital, 6 minutes A recontextualization of “radical” cinema, this video critiques how the use of the term “radical” has been applied to certain contemporary films. It then pays tribute to films, many of which have been neglected or marginalized from film history, that attest to a legacy of radical resistance filmmaking. State of Emergence: The Wall, Anti Banality Union, 2016, digital, 3 minutes Who is the enemy, exactly? Dozens of clips from Hollywood zombie films are interwoven into a single sequence depicting how societal paranoia is propagated by mainstream entertainment. An excerpt from State of Emergence, a work-in-progress feature by Anti-Banality Union, a New York based media activist collective Snake Oil for N—–town Fever, Steven Boone, 2016, digital, 10 minutes The 1960s Roger Corman B-movie The Intruder is used as a blueprint for diagnosing the prevailing logic of 21st century Trumpism and the enduring racial dynamics of the United States. Problems with the Gendered POV Shot in Lilya 4-Ever, Kiera Sandusky, 2017, digital, 6 minutes The 2004 Swedish film Lilya 4-Ever depicted the problem of sex trafficking so powerfully that it was used by governments, NGOs and educators as an awareness raising tool. This video examines the aesthetic choices that make the film so powerful, as well as the problematic outcomes when it was used for social education purposes. My Crush Was a Superstar, Chloé Galibert-Laîné, 2017, digital, 10 minutes. This desktop documentary follows a single image of an ISIS fighter through a trail of messages, videos and postings to uncover his existence in both social media and reality. An excerpt from an ongoing research project by Galibert-Laîné and Kevin B. Lee investigating videos produced and circulated by the Islamic State. With the support of the Department of Film, Theatre & Television, University of Reading, and the Goethe-Institut London. 2023-07-19 Birkbeck College, University of London Essay Film Festival yes 2036-08-11 bimi metadata_and_data_files yes student The Essay Film Festival ran between 2015 and 2023, and presented a global range of contemporary and restored essayistic works. The events are now archived here for research purposes. All film stills were provided by participating artists. 2017-03-30 2017-03-30