Public Writing
A selection of recent publications, both scholarly and creative nonfiction journalism
- "Academic Austerity Survival Kit: 15 Ways to Make it Through, " The Edge, January 24, 2023, https://www.theedgemedia.org/academic-austerity-survival-kit-15-ways-make-it-through/
- "Struggles, Solutions, Solidarities: Julia Reichert (1946-2022)," The Edge, January 13, 2023 https://www.theedgemedia.org/?s=zimmermann&swpmfe=652ea0d21b1427a1bfa685e40d9bc1de
- "Only in Theaters," Ideas and Futures, October 12, 2022 https://ideasandfutures.com/2022/10/12/art-literary/only-in-theaters-by-patricia-r-zimmermann/
- "How Ukrainian Film Collectives Build Digital Archives and Stream the War," with Masha Shpolberg, The Edge, October 4, 2022 https://www.theedgemedia.org/ukrainian-film-collectives-digital-archives-stream-war/
- "Professors Are the How," coauthored with Brad Hougham, The Edge, August 1, 2022 https://www.theedgemedia.org/students-are-the-why-professors-are-the-how/
- "How Augmented Reality Illuminates the Politics of Place," with Elizabeth Miller, The Edge, August 25, 2023 https://www.theedgemedia.org/?s=miller&swpmfe=652ea0d21b1427a1bfa685e40d9bc1de
- "The Failures of Post-Roe Mainstream Media," coauthored with Noreen Sugrue, The Edge, July 2, 2022
https://www.theedgemedia.org/failures-of-post-roe-mainstream-media/ - "Aria for Cindy and Lament for the Post-Roe United States," The Edge, July 1, 2022
https://www.theedgemedia.org/aria-for-cindy-lament-roe-v-wade/ - "Normal Does Not Exist," The Edge, June 20, 2022
https://www.theedgemedia.org/normal-does-not-exist-covid-film-media/ - "The COVID 10 Million," The Edge, June 6, 2022
https://www.theedgemedia.org/cannes-zelenskyy-social-media-ukraine/ - "Cannes, Zelensky, Social Media, and the Mise en Abyme of Independent Media," The Edge, May 30, 2022
https://www.theedgemedia.org/cannes-zelenskyy-social-media-ukraine/ - "Babylon '13: Small Media of Urgent Utility," with Dale Hudson, Docalogue, April 2022 https://docalogue.com/babylon13/
- Co-creation Documentary During Pandemic and Protest Dossier, coedited with Helen De Michiel for Visible Evidence Forum October 2021
https://www.visibleevidence.org/category/forum/october-2021/ - "Overture: Co-Creation Documentary During Pandemic and Protest," for Visible Evidence Forum, coauthored with Helen De Michiel, October 2021
https://www.visibleevidence.org/article/overture-co-creation-documentary/ - "Coronavirus Drone Genres: Spectacles of Distance and Melancholia," Film Quarterly Quorum, coauthored with Caren Kaplan, April 20, 2020
https://filmquarterly.org/2020/04/30/coronavirus-drone-genres-spectacles-of-distance-and-melancholia/ - "COVID-19 Movement 5: Grave," Harun Farocki Institut, Germany, May 5, 2020
https://www.harun-farocki-institut.org/en/2020/05/05/covid-19-movement-v-grave/ - "The Urgency of Participatory Small Media During the COVID 19 Pandemic," The Edge, Park Center for Independent Media, coauthored with Dale Hudson
https://www.parkindymedia.org/the-urgency-of-participatory-small-media-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/ - "Co-Creation for a Virtual Environmental Film Festival, or, How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love ZOOM," Visible Evidence Forum, coauthored with Ann Michel, October 2021
https://www.visibleevidence.org/article/co-creation-virtual-film-festival/ - "Media in the COVID-19 pandemic: big and high, small and low," coauthored with Dale Hudson, Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, January 2021
https://www.ejumpcut.org/currentissue/HudsonZimmerman-Pandemic/index.html - "COVID Sonata in Five Parts: The First Half," Ideas & Futures, July 2020
https://ideasandfutures.com/2020/07/12/art-literary/covid-sonata-in-five-parts/ - "COVID Sonata in Five Parts: The Second Half, " Ideas & Futures, August 2020
https://ideasandfutures.com/2020/08/13/essays/covid-sonata-in-five-parts-the-second-half/ - "Insurgent Habitats: On Media and the Environment," coauthored with Dale Hudson, Film Quarterly (2019) 72 (3): 38–41.
https://filmquarterly.org/2019/02/27/manifesto-eleven-calls-to-action/ - "Nanook of the North," coauthored with Sean Zimmermann Auyash, National Film Registry, Library of Congress, July 2015
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Video recording of the launch of the Dossier on Cocreation Documentary published in Afterimage, May 2020, sponsored by the Park Center for Independent Media, featuring Karen Van Meenen, Reece Auguiste, Helen De Michiel, Brenda Longfellow, Dorit Naaman, and Patricia Zimmermann, June 2020