Author Conor Bateman

Conor Bateman

Conor Bateman is the managing editor of 4:3, an independent film website with a focus on festival coverage and in-depth interviews. He is also a freelance writer and video essayist, with work published in Fandor Keyframe, The Lifted Brow and Empire Magazine.

Repeat, Develop, Adapt: Harun Farocki’s Interface (1995)

September 2016

Cinémathèque Annotations on Film

1. Throughout his work, the late German filmmaker/artist Harun Farocki was fascinated by what he termed “operational images”. Operational images are those captured for a non-artistic, clinical purpose –...