Kim is a documentary researcher and practitioner with an interest in expanded forms, experimental film, archives, and questions of place. Her most recent project, The Art of Work is a Work of Art (2023-2025) is a live audio performance which explores the history of the experimental theatre Vitalstatistix in Port Adelaide. She is currently working with Open Space Contemporary Arts (OSCA) Projects of the Everyday on a series of site-bsaed works called on-site.
Kim’s work has screened on the ABC as well as at local and international galleries and festivals. Kim has also written on a range of documentary styles, genres and forms, which have been published in books and journals, as well as The Conversation and Metro... Read more
About me
Kim is a documentary researcher and practitioner with an interest in expanded forms, experimental film, archives, and questions of place. Her most recent project, The Art of Work is a Work of Art (2023-2025) is a live audio performance which explores the history of the experimental theatre Vitalstatistix in Port Adelaide. She is currently working with Open Space Contemporary Arts (OSCA) Projects of the Everyday on a series of site-bsaed works called on-site.
Kim’s work has screened on the ABC as well as at local and international galleries and festivals. Kim has also written on a range of documentary styles, genres and forms, which have been published in books and journals, as well as The Conversation and Metro Magazine. She is co-editor of Constructions of the Real: Intersections of Documentary-Based Film Practice and Theory. Kim was the conference programmer for the 2020 and 2021 Australian International Documentary Conferences (AIDC), Australia's premiere event for nonfiction content. Over the past 15 years, Kim has taught a variety of documentary and media courses at RMIT, Swinburne and Deakin Universities in Melbourne. She has also organised documentary events and symposia and run filmmaking workshops around climate change with UN Habitat. In 2023, Kim founded the Documentary Film Society which is dedicated to screening and conversations around experimental nonfiction and documentary films. Curating and programming collaborations include Encounters and Crossovers with Samstag Museum of Art (2024) and Queer Visions with Adelaide Queer film Festival (2025).
Kim is an elected member of the Governing Council of Visible Evidence, a collection of scholars and practitioners engaged in research and debates on historical and contemporary documentary practice and nonfiction media culture, the Radical Film Network Steering Group, and the editorial boards of Media Practice Education and the International Journal of Creative Media Research.
See more of her work here: www.kimmunro.com
About me
| Date | Title |
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| 24/04/2025 |
Vitalstatistix shares archival treasures in an ‘incredible snapshot of history’, https://www.indailysa.com.au/inreview/theatre/2025/04/24/vitalstatistix-shares-archival-treasures-in-an-incredible-snapshot-of-history |
About me
Doctor of Philosophy RMIT University
Master of Applied Linguistics Monash University
Master of Arts La Trobe University
Graduate Diploma in Film and Television (VCA) The University of Melbourne
Certificate IV in Training and Assessment Swinburne University of Technology
Bachelor of Fine Art (VCA) The University of Melbourne
Research
Excludes commercial-in-confidence projects.
Southern Yorke Peninsula Expanded Storytelling Moving Mural Trail Project, Warooka Progress Association, 23/11/2023 - 24/08/2025
Experimental Documentary Screening Program, Adelaide City Council, 05/01/2024 - 30/11/2024
The Art of Work is a Work of Art, Arts SA, 26/04/2023 - 27/10/2023
Selected Conferences and Presentations
Sightlines Filmmaking in the Academy, University of South Australia (2025), ‘Embodied Spectators’
Radical Film Network Conference, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (2024), ‘Queer Feminist Archives and The Art of Work’.
Creative Practice as/and Research Symposium, Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bengaluru, India (2024) ‘Keynote’
Sightlines Filmmaking in the Academy, University of South Australia (2023) ‘The Futorical Society’
Cultural Studies Association of Australia (CSAA), RMIT University (2022) ‘Queer Practices in Australian Screen Production’ with Stayci Taylor, Angie Black and Patrick Kelly.
Gender and Sexualities Conference, University of South Australia (2022), Keynote – ‘A mani-pedi-anti-counter-FESTO for queer screen production: A quatrologue’, with Stayci Taylor, Angie Black and Patrick Kelly.
Visible Evidence XXVIII, University of Gdańsk, Poland (2022), ‘Invisible Evidences: Gaps, Omissions and Absences as Documentary Material’
Utopian Studies Conference, University of Brighton (2022), ‘A mani-pedi-anti-counter- FESTO for queer screen production: a quatrologue’.
I-docs, Crisis and Multi-perspectival Thinking, University of Western England and Birkbeck University, (2022), ’Listening in times of crisis: i-docs as a model for listening across difference’
Interactive Film & Media Conference, Leeds Trinity, Ryerson, University of Texas and the University of Bayreuth (2022), ‘What can listening do? Propositions for expanded documentary’
Besides the Screen: University of Nottingham UK and Ningbo, China (2021) ‘Live Virtual Documentary: Ephemeral Forms for Precarious Times’
Sightlines: Screen Production and the Academy: RMIT University, Australia (2019), ‘You Have Been Trolled’ live film/screenwriting performance (with Stayci Taylor) and ‘The Park’ screening
Critical Autoethnography Conference: Levity and Gravity, State Library of Victoria (2019), ‘Live Hypothetical Radio’
The Politics of Listening, University of New South Wales, Australia (2018) ‘Eavesdropping: Listening to the “failures” in documentary filmmaking’
NonFiction NOW, Arizona State University, USA (2018) ‘Data’s Mine in the Data Mine’
Critical Autoethnography as Wayfinding/Wayfaring University of Auckland, New Zealand (2018) ‘Diarology for Beginners: confession, chance, collectivity and the pre-formed self’
i-Docs Symposium, University of West England, Bristol, UK (2018) ‘Bi-lateral Relations’
ASPERA Conference, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, Australia (2018) ‘Continuums of possibility: screen mediations and homelessness’
Visible Evidence Conference XXIV, Buenos Aires Argentina (2017) ’Documentary and Listening’
Visible Evidence Conference XXIII, University of Montana, Bozeman (2016) ‘Voicing the Alone: polyvocality as cartography in the expanded field of documentary’
Sightlines: Filmmaking in the Academy, RMIT University, Australia (2016) ’Events of the Alone: Multi-linear documentary’
World Cinema and the Essay Film, Reading University, United Kingdom (2015) ‘The essay film as address’
Research
Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID or Scopus
Open access indicates that an output is open access.
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| 2023 |
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| 2025 |
Munro, K 2025, The art of work is a work of art (book), Vitalstatistix, Australia. |
| 2023 |
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| 2025 |
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| 2024 |
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| 2021 |
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| 2018 |
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| 2018 |
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| 2025 |
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| 2024 |
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| 2023 |
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| 2023 |
1
1
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| 2023 |
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| 2023 |
3
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2
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| 2023 |
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| 2022 |
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| 2020 |
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| 2020 |
4
1
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| 2019 |
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| 2019 |
Open access
1
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| 2018 |
11
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| 2017 |
Munro, K 2017, 'Documentary and technology: a committed relationship?', Metro. |
| 2017 |
Open access
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| 2017 |
1
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| 2025 |
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| 2023 |
Munro, K 2023, City's new malls, Australian Centre for the Moving Image.
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| 2023 |
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| 2023 |
Munro, K 2023, The Futorical Society.
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| 2023 |
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| 2022 |
Donovan, D, Munro, K & Lyons-Reid, J 2022, Healthy Coorong healthy basin films.
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| 2020 |
Munro, K, Murray, P & Taylor, S 2020, Sonic (Dys)tonic, Sonic Field.
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| 2018 |
Munro, K 2018, The Park, Am I at home?, Upper Ferntree Gully, Australia, 09/08/2018-18/08/2018.
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| 2017 |
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The Conversation: A brief history of found footage video art – and where Macklemore’s Hind’s Hall fits in
The Conversation: A new exhibition explores invisible data, from facial algorithms to satellite tracking as a return to Country
External engagement & recognition
| Organisation | Country |
|---|---|
| Columbia College Chicago | UNITED STATES |
| Deakin University | AUSTRALIA |
| JMC Academy | AUSTRALIA |
| Queen's University | CANADA |
| RMIT University | AUSTRALIA |
| Swinburne University of Technology | AUSTRALIA |
| University of Melbourne | AUSTRALIA |
| University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
| University of the Sunshine Coast | AUSTRALIA |
| Victoria University | AUSTRALIA |
External engagement & recognition
| Engagement/recognition | Year |
|---|---|
RMIT Media Star Award for Top PerformerRMIT University |
2020 |
RMIT Prize for Research Excellence - HDR (Design)RMIT University |
2019 |
Media & Communication Dean's Award for Exemplary Sessional StaffRMIT University |
2018 |
Teaching & student supervision
Teaching & student supervision
Supervisions from 2010 shown
| Thesis title | Student status |
|---|---|
| Digital art, art robots and the intra-active world. | Current |
| Entangling agencies: towards an ethical framework for impact producing | Current |
| Material Soundings: The hand-crafted object as a form of holding and translating memory | Current |
| Screenwriting the speculative narrative of found footage films | Current |
| Sensing the Anthropocene: creative practice, climate change and the sensory world | Current |
