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 discussion about streaming video options on ABC RN’s The Final Cut with Jason Di Rosso.
A video prepared for the Melbourne Cinémathèque.
A short feature on Harun Farocki’s Interface published by Senses of Cinema.
A feature piece about the Soda_Jerk short The Was for 4:3.
A video essay made for 4:3 and presented at the 2016 Emerging Writers Festival.
A roundtable critics discussion on the highlights of the Sydney Film Festival for ABC RN’s The Final Cut with Jason Di Rosso.
Part one in a series of commissioned pieces on video essay form, originally published at Fandor Keyframe.