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 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 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.