Obsessions: A Static Vision Festival
A themed film festival I co-programmed and cut the trailer for in 2024.
Conor Bateman is a writer, video editor, film programmer, and the managing editor of 4:3, an independent online film magazine. His writing has been published in RealTime, The Lifted Brow, Senses of Cinema and more, and his video work has been screened at UQ Gallery and the Monash University Museum of Art.
He is one of the lead programmers of Static Vision, an independent Australian film collective. He also works as the Digital and Social lead at ABC Arts and previously has worked for Sydney Film Festival, ABC iview, SBS and the University of Sydney. He was a jury member at the Possible Worlds Film Festival, a participant in the Melbourne International Film Festival's Critics Campus program as both mentee and mentor, and has been a panelist at the Emerging Writers Festival and the Melbourne International Film Festival.
You can find him online at 4:3 or on Twitter, Instagram and Tumblr.
A themed film festival I co-programmed and cut the trailer for in 2024.
I cut the trailer for this farewell film festival for Sydney venue Pink Flamingo Cinema.
A themed film festival I co-programmed and cut the trailer for in 2022.
I edited the trailer for Sari Braithwaite’s documentary, which had its world premiere at the 2022 Melbourne International Film Festival.
An 85-minute video installation I edited for artist Jason Phu, supported by the Mordant Family Moving Image Commission.
A themed film festival I co-programmed and cut the trailer for in 2021.
A five-channel video installation made in collaboration with filmmaker Sari Braithwaite for the Australian Centre of the Moving Image (ACMI).
A short video commissioned by Pink Flamingo Cinema as part of their Extremely Online Project
A livestreamed film festival I co-programmed and cut the trailer for in mid 2020.
A weekend film festival I co-programmed, cut the trailer for and did logo design for in early 2020.