
Publish and Perish: Video Essays in the Age of Social Media
A feature piece published at 4:3.
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 piece published at 4:3.
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.
Part one in a series of commissioned pieces on video essay form, originally published at Fandor Keyframe.
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 feature piece for Fandor Keyframe on Stéphane Lafleur’s third feature film.