The hills have ideologies
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
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 essay on the legacy of Masao Adachi’s 1969 film A.K.A. Serial Killer for 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art in Sydney
A feature essay on a documentary screening series at the Institute of Modern Art in Queensland for 4:3.
An annotation on Thom Andersen’s 2010 landscape short Get Out of the Car for Senses of Cinema.
A review of Martin DiCicco’s debut feature documentary for 4:3.
A feature piece commissioned by RealTime Arts.