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

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, especially noted for a sequence of hand-drawn animated films he produced during the 1990s. The latter are constructed by ...

in 1990's. As a project 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 project design have been displayed in various international exhibitions held in New York,

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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 currently based in the Netherlands. Life and work Dumas was born in 1953 in Cape Town, South Africa and grew up in Kuils River in the Western Cape, where her father had ...

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

''Dying for Gold''

She co-directed the film ''

Dying for Gold ''Dying for Gold'' is a 2018 South African trilingual documentary film written and directed by duo Richard Pakleppa and Catherine Meyburgh. The film is produced under the production banner Breathe Films and the film was predominantly shot in ...

'' with Namibian filmmaker

Richard Pakleppa Richard Pakleppa (born 1961) is a white Namibian screenwriter, film director and film producer. Pakleppa studied philosophy and theatre in Munich, Germany and gained a Honours Degree in African studies from the University of Cape Town. Since 1 ...

which depicts the untold real story about the

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

Filmography

As Projection designer * 1996
UBU
* 2005 - The Magic

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

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* 2015
Lulu
by

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* 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

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)