Kim Munro

Research Interests

Film, Television and Digital Media Fine Arts Photography, video and lens-based practice Social Change

Teaching Strengths

Documentary Film
Creative arts research methods
digital storytelling

Dr Kim Munro

Lecturer

School of Communication, Media and Journalism

College of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities

Available For Media Comment.

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.
 
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 Senses of Cinema, 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. 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 Palgrave Studies in Documentary Histories book series, Media Practice Education and the International Journal of Creative Media Research.
 
See more of her work here: www.kimmunro.com

Date Position Institution name
2019 - 2021 Conference Programmer Australian International Documentary Conference

Date Type Title Institution Name Country Amount
2025 Nomination Ruby Awards - Outstanding Work or Event Within a Festival Create SA Australia -
2025 Teaching Award UniSA Unstoppable Awards - Enterprise Partnership Award University of South Australia Australia -
2025 Distinction Innovation in Creative Arts Award: Highly commended Australian Council of Deans and Directors of Creative Arts Australia -
2025 Teaching Award Creative Innovation in Teaching Award University of South Australia Australia -
2024 Teaching Award UniSA Unstoppable Awards - Enhanced Learning University of South Australia Australia -
2024 Teaching Award Creative Innovation in Teaching Award University of South Australia Australia -
2020 Award RMIT Media Star Award for Top Performer RMIT University Australia -
2019 Research Award RMIT Prize for Research Excellence - HDR (Design) RMIT University Australia -
2018 Teaching Award RMIT Dean's Award for Exemplary Sessional Teacher RMIT University Australia -

Date Institution name Country Title
2015 - 2019 RMIT University Australia PhD
2011 - 2014 La Trobe University Australia Master of Arts (Research)
2008 - 2008 University of Melbourne Australia Graduate Diploma of Film & Television
2004 - 2007 Monash University Australia Master of Applied Linguistics
1998 - 2000 University of Melbourne Australia Bachelor of Fine Art

Year Citation
2025 Gough Brady, C., Munro, K., Rogers, C., & Tytler, C. (2025). Embodied spectators: relationships between creators and their audiences. Media Practice and Education, online, 1-17.
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2024 Munro, K., & Ellis, M. (2024). Editorial: resistance and/as creative practice. Unlikely: Journal for Creative Arts, (9).
2023 Black, A., Kelly, P., Munro, K., & Taylor, S. (2023). A mani-pedi-anti-counter-festo for a queer screen production practice. Journal Of Science And Technology Of The Arts, 15(2), 155-169.
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2023 Richards, S., Pacella, J., & Munro, K. (2023). Comradery and the arts: experiences of senior volunteers in a festival city. Journal of Festival Studies, 5, 326-355.
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2023 Taylor, S., Black, A., Kelly, P., & Munro, K. (2023). Manifesto as method for a queer screen production practice. Studies in Australasian Cinema, 17(1-2), 50-67.
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2023 Taylor, S., Shaw, O., Rendle Short, F., Murray, P., Munro, K., Magna, B., . . . Ellis, M. (2023). Collaborative effervescence through communitas. Sydney Review of Books.
2023 Munro, K., & Morrison, K. (2023). Bodies in space: XR documentary in Australia. Studies in Documentary Film, 17(2), 190-207.
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2023 Munro, K. (2023). Kill the Documentary: A Letter to Filmmakers, Students, and Scholars. STUDIES IN DOCUMENTARY FILM, 17(1), 91-93.
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2023 Munro, K. (2023). Interactive documentary: decolonising practice-based research
<b>Interactive documentary: decolonising practice-based research</b>
, edited by Katherine M. Ryan and David Staton, New York, Routledge, 2022, 238 pp., US $60.79(Paperback), US $55.19(eBook), ISBN 9781032001319. Media Practice and Education, 24(2), 216-217.
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2022 Munro, K. (2022). Every Minute Counts. METRO, (211), 64-67.
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2022 Munro, K. (2022). Interactive documentary: theory and debate. STUDIES IN DOCUMENTARY FILM, 16(2), 188-189.
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2022 Munro, K. (2022). Adelaide dreams electric immersive possibilities at Adelaide Fringe. Metro, (213), 76-81.
2020 Munro, K. (2020). Melbourne WebFest 2019 and the continued rise of web series. Metro Magazine, (203), 54-59.
2020 Munro, K. (2020). Making visible: Out Here, Love Bites and LGBTQIA+ documentary on the small screen. Metro Magazine, (206), 42-45.
2020 Munro, K., Murray, P., & Taylor, S. (2020). Diarology for beginners: articulating playful practice through artless methodology. New Writing, 17(1), 80-100.
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2020 Munro, K. (2020). Rummaging through the rubble: creative constraints in prototype's rapid response care package. Metro Magazine, (206), 70-75.
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2020 Munro, K. (2020). Envisioned presences: 'Future dreaming', 'Passenger' and the continuing evolution of virtual reality. Metro Magazine, (204), 68-73.
2020 Munro, K. (2020). Watch List: Melbourne WebFest 2019 and the Continued Rise of Web Series. METRO, (203), 54-59.
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2020 Munro, K. (2020). Making Visible. METRO, (206), 42-45.
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2019 Munro, K. (2019). The sense of being somewhere: 'Mind at war', 'Thalu: dreamtime is now' and the rise of virtual reality. Metro Magazine, (no.199), 102-107.
2019 Munro, K. (2019). Destructive pasts, hopeful possibilities: the simulated environment in 'Awavena' and 'Did you ask the river?'. Metro Magazine, (201), 82-85.
2019 Munro, K. (2019). Listening as practice: a month in Ólafsfjörður. Qualitative Research Journal, 19(1), 9-17.
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2019 Taylor, S., Munro, K., & Murray, P. (2019). Advanced diarology: mortification, materiality and meaning-making. TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses, 23(57), 1-21.
DOI Scopus1
2018 Munro, K. (2018). i-Docs as 'contagions of hope'. Studies in Documentary Film, 12(2), 163-165.
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2018 Munro, K., & Bilbrough, P. (2018). An ecology of relationships: tensions and negotiations in documentary filmmaking practice as research. Media Practice and Education, 19(3), 256-269.
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2017 Munro, K. (2017). Documentary and technology: a committed relationship?. Metro Magazine, 193(193), 122-125.
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2017 Munro, K. (2017). Rethinking first-person testimony through a vitalist account of documentary participation. Frames Cinema Journal, 12, 1-15.
2017 Munro, K. (2017). The essay film as address: the epistle as relational act. New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film, 15(1), 81-95.
DOI Scopus1
- Munro, K. (2025). Introduction to documentary, fourth edition. Media Practice and Education, 1-2.
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- Munro, K. (2022). What can listening do?. Interactive Film &amp; Media Journal, 2(2).
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- Munro, K. (2025). The documentary audit: listening and the limits of accountability. STUDIES IN DOCUMENTARY FILM, 2 pages.
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Year Citation
2025 Munro, K. (2025). The art of work is a work of art: feminist theater and live documentary. In N. Moradiyan-Rizi, & S. Warren (Eds.), Source details - Title: Women and Global Documentary: Practices and Perspectives in the 21st Century (pp. 169-184). UK: Bloomsbury Academic.
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2024 Munro, K. (2024). Mining the Archives: the theory and practice in site-based documentary studies. In K. Stutterheim (Ed.), Source details - Title: Teaching Documentary for the 21st Century (pp. 134-142). Bulgaria: CILECT: The International Association of Film and Television Schools.
2023 Munro, K. (2023). Acclimations: speculations on making documentary in the climate emergency. In C. Rogers, K. Munro, L. Burke, & C. Brady (Eds.), Source details - Title: Constructions of the Real : Intersections of Documentary-Based Film Practice and Theory (pp. 81-88). UK: Intellect.
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2023 Munro, K. (2023). Live documentary performance in the time of COVID-19: ephemeral forms for precarious times. In D. Sills-Jones, & P. Kaapa (Eds.), Source details - Title: Documentary in the Age of COVID (pp. 85-107). UK: Peter Lang.
2021 Munro, K. (2021). Transmedia activism and future dreaming: Big hART's Yijala Yala. In F. Gilardi, & C. Lam (Eds.), Source details - Title: Transmedia in Asia and the Pacific: Industry, Practice and Transcultural Dialogues (pp. 213-231). Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan.
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2018 Munro, K. (2018). Hybrid practices and voice making in contemporary female documentary film. In B. Ulfsdotter, & A. Rogers (Eds.), Source details - Title: Female agency and documentary strategies: Subjectivities, Identity and Activism (pp. 70-83). UK: Edinburgh University Press.
Scopus4
  • 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

Courses I teach

  • MDIA 2024 Documentary Film & Television (2025)
  • COMM 3079 Digital Mediascapes (2025)
  • COMM 3079 Digital Mediascapes (2024)
  • COMM 3086 Creative Ventures (2024)

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2026 Co-Supervisor Love / Money: Affective advocacy beyond moral shock - Doctorate Full Time Brooke Lee Walker
2025 Co-Supervisor Material Soundings: The hand-crafted object as a form of holding and translating memory - Doctorate Full Time Mrs Marlize De Klerk
2024 Co-Supervisor Digital art, art robots and the intra-active world. - Doctorate Full Time Ms Megan Jane Roodenrys
2023 Co-Supervisor Sensing the Anthropocene: creative practice, climate change and the sensory world - Doctorate Part Time Lily Roberts
2023 Co-Supervisor Entangling agencies: towards an ethical framework for impact producing - Doctorate Part Time Ms Alex Kelly
2023 Co-Supervisor Screenwriting the speculative narrative of found footage films - Doctorate Part Time Mr David Ian Moore

Date Role Committee Institution Country
2024 - ongoing Member Visible Evidence Visible Evidence -
2024 - ongoing Member Radical Film Network Steering Group Radical Film Network -
2023 - 2025 Member ASPERA Research Sub-committee Australian Screen Production and Education Research Association Australia

Date Title Engagement Type Institution Country
2023 - ongoing Founder - Documentary Film Society - Documentary Film Society Australia

Date Role Editorial Board Name Institution Country
2026 - ongoing Board Member Palgrave Studies in Documentary Histories book series N/A Australia
2024 - ongoing Board Member International Journal of Creative Media Research International Journal of Creative Media Research -
2022 - ongoing Board Member Journal of Media Practice Journal of Media Practice -

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