Patrick Kelly
Senior Lecturer, Media & Communication
A screen production scholar, Patrick is a leader in the areas of equity, diversity and inclusion, integrated scholarship and Work Integrated Learning (WIL), and the translation of creative film practice into real world settings.
You can find information about Patrick’s work as a filmmaker, researcher, and teacher (including his industry partnerships) in the respective pages of this website.
From 2014-2016, Patrick served as a Co-Director of Critical Animals creative research symposium and media arts exhibition, which takes place in Newcastle during October of each year, as part of This Is Not Art festival.
He has worked in film and television production for Network Ten, Jonathan M Schiff Productions, and LCR Filmsound. He worked in development and pre-production on 'Are We Not Men? The Devo Documentary'. He also works as a freelance videographer, editor, writer and project manager. His written work about media has appeared in the Journal of Creative Technologies, Altitude Journal, Critical Animalia, ABC’s The Drum, The Conversation, Fairfax, Mumbrella, The Lifted Brow, and M/C Reviews.
He has taught a wide range of media theory and practice courses at RMIT, Swinburne, and Deakin universities since 2010, teaching everything from undergraduate foundation communications theory and experimental video production, to interactive documentary production and postgraduate work integrated learning.
His practice and research involves all forms of media -- especially documentary production, interactive video, all things mobile, ethnography, and professional practice.
Research Leadership positions
2019-present Screen & Sound Cultures Research Group Co-Director
2018-present ASPERA executive committee member
2016-present Sightlines, Screening Review Committee member
2016-present ASPERA, Conference Review Committee member
2016-present Mobile Innovation Network Australasia (MINA), Screening co-curator
2015-present MINA, Organising Committee member
2015-present MINA, Symposium Review Committee member
2014-present MINA, Screening Review Committee member
2012 Digital Cinema Symposium, Symposium Committee member
Research Grants, Awards & Honours
2017 Creative Victoria - Virtual Creative Professional in Schools (for Tributary: Stories of Travel and Transition along Bendigo Creek, with Guntarik, O. & Byrne, B.)
2016 DSC Conference Travel Funding
2013 HDR Candidates Funding (Travel Scholarship)
2012 RMIT DVC (R&I)’s Postgraduate Research Student International Conference Fund
2010-2013 RMIT PhD Scholarship
2010 Award of Excellence, Canada International Film Festival (for Lance Johnson in Person, as director/writer/producer)
2010 Official Selection, Tropical Alternative Film Festival (for Lance Johnson in Person, as director/writer/producer)
2007 First Prize, Montclair State University Film Festival (for Post Mortem Depression, as director/writer/editor)
2007 QUT Foreign Exchange Bursary
2007 Official Selection, International iPod Film Festival (for Spare, as director/writer/editor)