Hyperlinks: A Static Vision Festival
A weekend film festival I co-programmed, cut the trailer for and did logo design for in early 2020.
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 weekend film festival I co-programmed, cut the trailer for and did logo design for in early 2020.
A video work about Italo cannibal films commissioned by UQ Art Museum.
A video work commissioned for Prototype, an online Australian video art project curated by Lauren Carroll Harris.
A video work about Robert Smithson and 1950s sci-fi commissioned by UQ Art Museum and Monash University Museum of Art.
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 discussion about desktop films (including Searching, Unfriended and Profile) for ABC RN’s The Hub on Screen with Jason Di Rosso.
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.