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, 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 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.