Catherine Meyburgh

Catherine Meyburgh is a South African film editor, filmmaker, artist, and projection 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, Channel 4, BBC and NBC. She worked as a film editor in animated films of prominent contemporary artist William Kentridge in 1990's. As a projection designer in theatre and opera, she has worked with fellow prominent artists including Leora Farber, Georgia Papageorge and Willem Boshoff. Her projection design has been displayed in various international exhibitions held in New York and Paris. She also initiated a project titled The Head & the Load collaborating with fellow artists William Kentridge, Philip Miller and Thuthuka Sibisi.

Films

Kentridge & Dumas in Conversation Her directorial Kentridge & Dumas in Conversation is based on the real stories of contemporary artists William Kentridge and Marlene Dumas. 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. The film describes the difficulties faced by miners when they involve in search for gold.

Filmography As Projection designer

1996 - UBU 2005 - The Magic Flute/Die Zauberflöte by Mozart 2005 - Black Box/Chamber Noire 2012 - The Refusal of Time and Refuse the Hour 2010 - The Nose by Shostakovitch 2015 - Lulu by Alban Berg 2016 - Bikohausen 2017 - Wozzeck by Alban Berg 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 2006 - 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 - Bloodlines 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 for Gold 2020 - 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

Animation

2016 - The Takeover - David Koloane 2019 - Something out of nothing - David Koloane 2021 - Phantom Hurt