Kim Nelson is the Director of the Humanities Research Group, and an Associate Professor of Cinema Arts in the School of Creative Arts at the University of Windsor in Canada. She is a filmmaker with an interest in historiography, the philosophy of history, as well as spectatorship, expanded/live cinema and immersive, participatory and performance modes of exhibition as they relate to documentary film.
Her work has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Ontario Arts Council and she has received the Media Arts award from The Windsor Endowment for the Arts, and the Emerging Award for Research and Creative Activity at the University of Windsor. Her feature-length documentaries have screened at international film festivals and on university campuses in Canada, the US and Europe, as well as online with KCET in the US, one of the US’ largest public broadcasters. Her recent film, 130 Year Road Trip Live, a practice-based expression of this research, merges documentary, history and live performance and was the keynote presentation at the Film & History Conference in Milwaukee, and the Pluralities Conference at San Francisco State University, both in November 2017.
Her most recent history documentary Bud and Ron’s Northern Life was produced for the CBC. It aired nationally in Canada on January 27, 2019, and is available to stream at the CBC’s website. She is currently working with collaborators Rob Nelson, Brent Lee and Nick Hector to create a live documentary version of the piece called Ice Farmers.
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Department: Humanities Research Group
Areas of expertise: communications, film making, womens rights, popular culture, immigration and integration, environment
Office: Room 227 ARMORIES Armouries and Freedom Way
Phone: +1 519 253 3000 x3508
E-mail: kimnel@uwindsor.ca