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Conor Bateman
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video making / film programming

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This one's Charisma, right?
October 30, 2025 at 4:44 AM
(this is primarily a response to Text Publishing's habit of releasing novellas as c-format paperbacks with a needlessly large font)
October 17, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Her memoir and her other novel don't fit that bill, though (the latter is hyper aware of that precise sort of pigeon-holing). Finding this framing very strange (I've not read the new book)
October 10, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Transit really is the highlight of the trilogy. I bounced off Outline also, loved Transit and found Kudos a lightly amusing victory lap.
September 30, 2025 at 9:00 AM
real good movie. if the cinema sequence appeals in particular, this may also appeal: vimeo.com/332108492
Runtime (2019)
A video work commissioned for Prototype, an online Australian video art project curated by Lauren Carroll Harris.
vimeo.com
September 27, 2025 at 6:51 AM
gameObject Permanence explores lost, cancelled, abandoned and shut down video games, from less-storied entries in the Sim franchise and a Superman clone for the NES to a window into the final day of The Matrix Online.

Game Worlds runs until early February 2026: www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/gam...
September 18, 2025 at 6:53 AM
the chaka khan section is fever dream territory
September 7, 2025 at 12:25 PM
From the same team as Two Minutes but even lighter (though very charming) is River.

Perhaps not quite the same vibe but incredible timeloop/ perceived timeloop films from Iranian filmmmaker Shahram Mokri - Fish & Cat, and Invasion.
August 23, 2025 at 8:53 AM
for whatever reason the verse vocals over that instrumental call to mind Scritti Politti
August 23, 2025 at 8:39 AM
been on my to-watch for a while, I loved the Stanley Ellin novel when I read it a decade ago
August 21, 2025 at 5:03 AM