September 18, 2025
gameObject Permanence
A 7-minute video work about shuttered video games for Australian Centre of the Moving Image (ACMI)’s exhibition Game Worlds.
Conor Bateman is a writer, video editor and film programmer. He was the managing editor of 4:3 (2014-2019), an independent online film magazine, and is one of the co-founders of Static Vision, an independent Australian film collective.
His writing has been published in RealTime, The Lifted Brow, Senses of Cinema and more, and his video work has been screened at ACMI, UQ Gallery and the Monash University Museum of Art. He also works in digital video for ABC Arts and previously has worked for Sydney Film Festival and SBS.
You can find him online on Bluesky and Instagram.
September 18, 2025
A 7-minute video work about shuttered video games for Australian Centre of the Moving Image (ACMI)’s exhibition Game Worlds.
November 28, 2024
A 9-minute cyberpunk collage created for Australian Centre of the Moving Image (ACMI)’s exhibition The Future & Other Fictions.
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.
February 25, 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