Hyperlinks URL: A Static Vision Online Festival
A livestreamed film festival I co-programmed and cut the trailer for in mid 2020.
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.
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.
A video work about Italo cannibal films commissioned by UQ Art Museum.
A video work commissioned for Prototype, an online Australian video art project curated by Lauren Carroll Harris.
A video work about Robert Smithson and 1950s sci-fi commissioned by UQ Art Museum and Monash University Museum of Art.
November 14, 2018
A feature essay on the legacy of Masao Adachi’s 1969 film A.K.A. Serial Killer for 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art in Sydney
September 14, 2018
A discussion about desktop films (including Searching, Unfriended and Profile) for ABC RN’s The Hub on Screen with Jason Di Rosso.
May 23, 2018
A feature essay on a documentary screening series at the Institute of Modern Art in Queensland for 4:3.
March 25, 2018
An annotation on Thom Andersen’s 2010 landscape short Get Out of the Car for Senses of Cinema.