Patrick Brian Smith

Part-time Professor, Cinema

Contact information

Email:

patrick.smith@concordia.ca

Website:

patrickbriansmith.com

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Biography

Patrick Brian Smith completed his PhD in the Film and Moving Image Studies Program at Concordia University in 2020. He is currently a Professional Development Consultant and Pedagogical Advisor in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia. From January 2022 he will be a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Warwick. He will be working on a project entitled Mediated Forensics: Documentary’s New Evidentiary Turn. His research interests include documentary theory and practice, spatial and political theory, forensic media, and human rights media activism. He has taught courses on visual culture, film and media histories, documentary theory, and activist media cultures. His work has been, or will be, published in journals such as JCMS, Discourse, Media, Culture and Society, NECSUS, Afterimage, and Mediapolis.

Teaching activities

FFAR 250 - Keywords: Reading the Arts Across the Disciplines
Tutorial leader with Dr. MJ Thompson, Dr. Anja Bock, and Dr. Tammer El-Sheikh
Fall 2015 - Winter 2020

FMST 211 - Film History to 1959
Part-time Instructor
Winter 2018

FMST 332 - Issues in Independent Cinema: Cinema of Resistance in a Neoliberal Age
Part-time Instructor
Winter 2019

FMST 211 - Film History to 1959
Part-time Instructor
Winter 2020

Publications

Articles (peer reviewed)

Smith, Patrick Brian and Ryan Watson. “Mediated Forensics and Militant Evidence: Rethinking the Camera as Gun.” Media, Culture and Society (Forthcoming, 2022).

Smith, Patrick Brian and Kenzie Burchell. “Teaching Forensic Media: Practical and Collaborative Learning.” JCMS Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Teaching Media Dossier: Documentary Pedagogy (Forthcoming, 2022).

Smith, Patrick Brian. “Counter Logistics/Counter Forensics.” Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture, Media and Paranoia Special Issue (Forthcoming, 2022).

Smith, Patrick Brian. “Documenting Extractive and Indigenous
Futurities: Thirza Cuthand and Thomas Kneubühler’s Radical Work.”Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism 47, no. 4 (2020): 50–68.

Smith, Patrick Brian. “The Politics of Spatiality in Experimental Nonfiction Cinema: Jonathan Perel’s ‘Toponimia.’” NECSUS European Journal of Media Studies 5, no. 2 (2016): 49-71.

Articles (non-peer reviewed)

Smith, Patrick Brian, Stephen Connolly and Matthew Gibson. “Visualising Spatial Injustice and Exploitation, Q&A with Alberto Toscano and Miranda Pennell.” Mediapolis 3, no. 2 (2018), http://www.mediapolisjournal.com/2018/07/visualising-spatial-injustice-qa-one-toscano.

Smith, Patrick Brian and Patrick Brodie. “Documenting Capital: Intersections of Free Trade Zone Architecture and Digital Filmmaking.” Pause Button 4 (2017).

Book chapters

Smith, Patrick Brian. “Working/Slow: Cinematic Style as Labour in Wang Bing’s Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks.” In Traditions in World Cinema: Slow Cinema, edited by Tiago de Luca and Nuno Jorge, 180-191. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015.

Reviews

Smith, Patrick Brian. Review of Spectacle of Property: The House in American Film, by John David Rhodes. Film Studies 20 (2019): 56-58.

Smith, Patrick Brian. Review of Absence/Landing Sites, by Thomas Kneubühler. Ciel Variable 112 (2019): 88-89.

Smith, Patrick Brian. “Evidentiary Aesthetics: Landscapes of Violence at RIDM 2017.” NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies 14 (2018), https://necsus-ejms.org/evidentiary-aesthetics-landscapes-of-violence-at-ridm-2017/.