
Tramp The Dirt Down: Landscape in Brian Trenchard-Smith’s Turkey Shoot
A video essay commissioned by RealTime about Brian Trenchard-Smith’s 1982 Ozploitation film Turkey Shoot.
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 video essay commissioned by RealTime about Brian Trenchard-Smith’s 1982 Ozploitation film Turkey Shoot.
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A feature piece commissioned by RealTime Arts.
A feature piece published at 4:3.