
Rats in the Ranks – A Video Essay About Honest Politicians
A video essay made for 4:3 and presented at the 2016 Emerging Writers Festival.
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 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.
A music video made for Phanosland from re-purposed 35mm Stock Footage.
An interview with documentarian Stephen Low, who is known for his IMAX features.
An essay on Jesse Moss and Tony Gerber’s documentary for Fandor Keyframe.
A video essay created for The Lifted Brow, in response to Rebecca Harkins-Cross’ column, ‘The Loneliest Heart’.