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 feature piece for 4:3 on the relationship between advertisement and film in the careers of Errol Morris and Roy Andersson.
Album cover art for Scott Bradlee, Postmodern Jukebox, Songtourage and The Kleptones.
A supercut of 2014 films made for 4:3’s end of year coverage.
An archival project for and about Sydney Film Festival, prompted by its 60th anniversary in 2013.
New visual identity designed for the University of Sydney’s Film Society in 2013, including logo, shirt designs, video identity.