Kim is a documentary researcher and practitioner with an interest in the intersection between expanded forms and social and environmental issues. Kim’s work has screened on the ABC as well as at local and international galleries and festivals. Her PhD from RMIT explored expanded documentary practices and the politics of listening. 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. 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... Read more
About me
Kim is a documentary researcher and practitioner with an interest in the intersection between expanded forms and social and environmental issues. Kim’s work has screened on the ABC as well as at local and international galleries and festivals. Her PhD from RMIT explored expanded documentary practices and the politics of listening. 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. 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.
Kim is a member of the CP3 Resarch Centre.
Kim also runs the Documentary Film Society.
See more of her work here: www.kimmunro.com
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 - 30/06/2025
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
Conference Presentations
Besides the Screen: Geographies, Spaces, and Places Outside the Screen, Univesity of Nottingham, Nigbo (2021) ‘Live Virtual Documentary Performance: Ephemeral Forms for Precarious Times’
Eco-Media Symposium II: RMIT University, Australia (2020) ‘No Bad Word for Fire’
Sightlines: Screen Production and the Academy: RMIT University, Australia (2019) ‘You Have Been Trolled’ live film/screenwriting performance (with Stayci Taylor)
Eco-Media Symposium: RMIT University, Australia (2019) ‘Listening to Trees’
Sightlines: Screen Production and the Academy: RMIT University, Australia (2019) ‘The Park’ film 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’
Critical Autoethnography as Wayfinding/Wayfaring University of Auckland, New Zealand (2018) ‘Diarology for Beginners: confession, chance, collectivity and the pre-formed self’
NonFiction NOW, Arizona State University, USA (2018) ‘Data’s Mine in the Data Mine’
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’ & ‘Beyond the Interface Workshop’
New Directions in Screen Studies, Monash University, Australia (2017) ‘Why do the ducks not fly south?: A site-specific approach to multi-platform documentary through listening’
Echo Chamber at Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne (2016) ‘The Archive of Alone
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’
ASPERA Conference, University of Canberra, Australia (2016) ‘Participating in Aloneness: participatory practices in documentary’ & ‘Docuverse: a case-study’
Screening Futures Conference, RMIT University, Australia (2016) ‘Participatory practices in documentary: Where are we now?’
Docuverse Snapshots, RMIT University (2016) Work-in-progress screening
MINA (Mobile Innovation Network Aotearoa) Conference, RMIT University (2015) ‘The mobile diary’.
World Cinema and the Essay Film, Reading University, United Kingdom (2015) ‘The essay film as address’
Guest Lecture, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan (2013) ‘Documentary and its Impact’
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.
| Year | Output |
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| 2023 |
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| 2023 |
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| 2021 |
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| 2018 |
8
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| 2024 |
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| 2023 |
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| 2021 |
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| 2018 |
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| 2018 |
1
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| 2024 |
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| 2023 |
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| 2023 |
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| 2023 |
2
1
2
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| 2023 |
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| 2022 |
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| 2020 |
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| 2020 |
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| 2020 |
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| 2020 |
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| 2020 |
2
5
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| 2019 |
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| 2019 |
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| 2019 |
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| 2019 |
Open access
1
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| 2018 |
8
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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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| Year | Output |
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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.
Open access
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| 2023 |
Open access
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| 2022 |
Donovan, D, Munro, K & Lyons-Reid, J 2022, Healthy Coorong healthy basin films.
Open access
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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, 9 -18 August 2018.
Open access
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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 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 110295 - Exploring `best practice¿ techniques and models of screen production for social impact | Current |
| Digital art, art robots and the intra-active world. | Current |
| Entangling agencies: towards an ethical framework for impact producing | Current |
| Screenwriting the speculative narrative of found footage films | Current |
| Sensing the Anthropocene: creative practice, climate change and the sensory world | Current |
