Patrick is a screen production scholar who utilises an autoethnographic approach to his research, highlighting how professional processes and notions of identity, community and belonging converge and can be explored through the use of emerging technologies. Although the act of producing a creative work (non-traditional research output) often leads to new understandings that he disseminates as traditional scholarship, the impact of his creative practice and research translation is evidenced in his collaborations and other achievements.
In recent years, he has increased his profile as a screen production scholar through focusing on the quality of his research outputs, as well as consistent and holistic creative practices that allow him to contribute new knowledge to his field. Since 2017, he has been exploring the theories, methodologies and epistemologies surrounding Queer Australian Screen Production, including how the national context of a post-Marriage Equality era affects queer creative practices.
Patrick has been a Director of the Screen & Sound Cultures research group and has convened Sightlines: Screen Production & the Academy and various programmes of screenings in partnership with the Vietnam Film Institute, Birrarangga Film Festival, and RMIT Capitol Theatre.
Selected Journal Articles, Book Chapters, and Creative Research Outputs
Kelly, P. (2022: forthcoming). Mobile Media Making for Queer Australian Documentary Narratives In: Studies in Documentary Film.
Kelly, P. (2022: forthcoming). Making Waves through Autoethnography and Queer Documentary Film Practice In: New Materialist Affirmations, eds. Hickey-Moody, Coombs & Willcox, Edinburgh University Press.
Kelly, P. (2021). The Trouble In: Sightlines: Filmmaking in the Academy, vol.3. eds. Batty, Berry, Dooley, Frankham, McHugh, Verdon.
Guntarik, O., Kelly, P., Byrne, B., Fiegert, B. ,Glisovic, S. (2019). CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES a case study of place-based learning and teaching in the digital age In: Creative Victoria and Kangaroo Flat Primary School Melbourne, Australia
Kelly, P., Berry, M. (2019). Appeasing the Trolls: Contextualising New Screen Practices with Smartphones In: The Palgrave Handbook of Screen Production, Springer, Cham, Switzerland
Kelly, P. (2018). New Contextualised Perspectives: Using Bluetooth Beacons and Drones for Mixed-Reality Storytelling In: Mobile Story Making in an Age of Smartphones, Palgrave Pivot, Cham, Switzerland
Kelly, P. (2018). Deconstructing the detour: a meld of theory and filmic practice to generate new knowledge In: Studies in Australasian Cinema, 12, 104 - 115
Kelly, P. (2017). Quo Grab #01 In: Melbourne Central Art Loop, Series Three: Issues of Tomorrow Melbourne, Australia
Kelly, P. (2017). Quo Grab #02 In: 7th International Mobile Innovation Screening Melbourne, Australia
Kelly, P. (2016). Creativity and autoethnography: Representing the self in documentary practice In: Screen Thought: A journal of image, sonic, and media humanities, 1, 1 - 9
Kelly, P. (2015). From cinema to superhighway: A filmic examination of slow In: Altitude: An E-Journal of Emerging Humanities Work, 13, 1 - 16
Kelly, P. (2015). Experimenting with distribution models for the PhD documentary In: Proceedings of What's This Space? Screen Practice, Audiences and Education for the Future Decade, Adelaide, Australia, 15-17 July 2015
Kelly, P. (2015). Diorama #01 In: MINA International Mobile Innovation Screening Wellington, New Zealand
Publications in the Lay Press
Kelly, P. 2014. ‘Do we need transparent texting to avoid a mobile accident?’, The Conversation, 2 April (republished by Fairfax).
Kelly, P. 2014. ‘Facebook isn’t dying but it needs to evolve more’, The Conversation, 29 January (republished by Mumbrella, The New Zealand Herald, and Fairfax).
Kelly, P. 2014. ‘The Unique Experience of Interactivity’, Spectacle Blog, ACMI, 16 January.
Kelly, P. 2013. ‘Slow Media: Deliberate and Thoughtful Art & Film’, Critical Animalia: A Decade Between Disciplines, 4 October.
Kelly, P, O’Brien, C & R Scott. 2012. ‘The Future of the Internet’, The Lifted Brow, September.
Kelly, P. 2012. ‘Your Passwords Aren’t Safe Anymore’, ABC’s The Drum, 8 June.
Kelly, P. 2011. ‘Music Piracy on iCloud Nine’, ABC’s The Drum, 8 June.
Kelly, P. 2008. ‘Cinema: Vicky Cristina Barcelona’, M/C Reviews, 24 December.
Kelly, P. 2008. ‘Cinema: How to Lose Friends and Alienate People’, M/C Reviews, 26 October.