Catherine Meyburgh is a South African film editor, filmmaker, artist, and

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Career

She started her career as a film editor in 1983 mainly focusing documentaries. She has served as an editor in over 30 documentaries which have been telecast on Arte,

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and NBC. She worked as a film editor in animated films of prominent contemporary artist

William Kentridge William Kentridge (born 28 April 1955) is a South African artist best known for his prints, drawings, and animated films. He is especially noted for a sequence of hand-drawn animated films he produced during the 1990s, constructed by filming ...

in 1990's. As a projection designer in theatre and opera, she has worked with fellow prominent artists including Leora Farber,

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and

Willem Boshoff Willem Boshoff (born 1951, Johannesburg, South Africa) is one of South Africa's foremost contemporary artists and regularly exhibits nationally and internationally. Boshoff spent his childhood in Vanderbijlpark, which is a town located next to ...

. Her projection design has been displayed in various international exhibitions held in New York and

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. She also initiated a project titled ''The Head & the Load'' collaborating with fellow artists William Kentridge,

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and Thuthuka Sibisi.

Films

''Kentridge & Dumas in Conversation''

Her directorial ''Kentridge & Dumas in Conversation'' is based on the real stories of contemporary artists

and

Marlene Dumas Marlene Dumas (born 3 August 1953) is a South African artist and painter based in the Netherlands. Early life and education Dumas was born in 1953 in Cape Town, South Africa and grew up in Kuils River in the Western Cape, where her father ha ...

. The film reveals two of them involve in discussion regarding drawing, painting and filmmaking.

''Dying for Gold''

She co-directed, co-produced and edited the film '' Dying for Gold'' with Namibian filmmaker Richard Pakleppa which depicts the untold real story about the

mining in South Africa Mining in South Africa was once the main driving force behind the history and development of Africa's most advanced and richest economy. Large-scale and profitable mining started with the discovery of a diamond on the banks of the Orange Rive ...

. The film describes the difficulties faced by miners when they involve in search for gold.

Filmography

Projection designer Video design or projection design is a creative field of stagecraft. It is concerned with the creation and integration of film, motion graphics and live camera feed into the fields of theatre, opera, dance, fashion shows, concerts and other live e ...

* 1996
UBU
* 2005 - The Magic

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Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period (music), Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition and proficiency from an early age ...

* 2005
Black Box/Chamber Noire
* 2012
The Refusal of Time and Refuse the Hour
* 2010
The Nose
by

Shostakovitch Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, group=n (9 August 1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of his First Symphony in 1926 and thereafter was regarded as a major composer. Shostak ...

* 2015
Lulu
by

Alban Berg Alban Maria Johannes Berg ( ; ; 9 February 1885 – 24 December 1935) was an Austrian composer of the Second Viennese School. His compositional style combined Romantic lyricism with the twelve-tone technique. Although he left a relatively sma ...

* 2016
Bikohausen
* 2017
Wozzeck
by

* 2018
The Head & the Load
*2019
Mining Bodies
*2021
Something this way comes

As editor

* 1988 - ''Space Mutiny'' *1988 - ''Tyger, Tyger burning bright'' *1988
Namibia, no easy road to Freedom
*1990 - Nowhere to Play *1992 - The Clay Ox *1994
Soweto, a history
*1997
SABC 20 years, the untold story
*1998
Robert Sobukwe
*1998 - Yizo Yizo 1 *1998
Weighing... and Wanting
*1998
Alan Paton's Beloved Country
*1999
Stereoscope
*1999
Portrait of a Young Man Drowning
* 2000 - ''The Guguletu Seven'

' *2000 - Soul City *2000
Sol Plaatje, A Man for Our Time
*2001 - ''Yizo Yizo 2'' *2003
7 Fragments for Georges Méliès and Journey to the Moon
*2003 - ''Sophiatown'' *2003
Tide Table
*2003
Day for Night
*2003
Africa Rifting, lines of fire
*2004 - ''Zero Tolerance'' *2005 - ''Crossing the Line'' * 2006 -
Heartlines
' * 2006 -
Angola: Saudades from the One who Loves You
' *2006 - ''The Bushman's Secrets'' *200
- I am not me, the horse is not mine
*2007 - ''The Glow of White Women'' *2007
REwind: A Cantata for Voice,Tape & Testimony
*2007
What will come (has already come)
* 2008 - ''Gugu and Andile'' *2008

*2009
For which I am Prepared to Die
*2009 - ''Kentridge and Dumas in Conversation'' *2009
Breathe, Dissolve & Return
*2011
Other Faces
*2011 - ''Bettie'' * 2012 - ''Taste of Rain'' *2013 - ''Nelson Mandela: The Myth and Me'' *2014 - ''Body Games/Jogo de Corpo'' *2014 - ''When we were Black 2'' * 2018 - ''Dying fo
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Deliver Me
*2021
Ghosted Matter
*2021 - 1001 days

As director

* 1992 - The Clay Ox *1998
Alan Paton's Beloved Country
*2008
Viva Madiba, a hero for all seasons
*2009 - ''Kentridge and Dumas in Conversation'' *2011 - ''Bettie'' * 2018 - ''Dying for Gold'' As Producer/co-producer * 1992 - The Clay Ox * 1998
Alan Paton's Beloved Country
* 2007 - ''The Glow of White Women'' * 2012 - ''Taste of Rain'' * 2018 - ''Dying for Gold]'' Animation * 2016 - The Takeover - David Koloane * 2019 - Something out of nothing - David Koloane * 2021
Phantom Hurt

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Meyburgh, Catherine Living people South African film directors South African women film directors South African documentary film directors South African film editors Year of birth missing (living people)