Catherine Meyburgh Explained

Catherine Meyburgh
Nationality:South African
Occupation:film director, editor, project designer, artist
Years Active:1983
Known For:Dying for Gold

Catherine Meyburgh is a South African film editor, filmmaker, artist and project designer.[1]

Career

She started her career as a film editor in 1983 mainly focusing documentaries.[2] 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 project designer in theatre and opera, she has worked with fellow prominent artists including Leora Farber, Georgia Papageorge and Willem Boshoff. Her project design have been displayed in various international exhibitions held in New York, Paris.[3] She also initiated a project titled The Head & the Load collaborating with fellow artists William Kentridge, Philip Miller and Thuthuka Sibisi.[4]

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.[5] The film reveals two of them involve in discussion regarding drawing, painting and filmmaking.[6]

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.[7] [8] The film describes the difficulties faced by miners when they involve in search for gold.[9]

Filmography

As Projection designer

As editor

As director

As Producer/co-producer

Animation

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Catherine Meyburgh Opera Australia. opera.org.au. 2019-11-13.
  2. Web site: Catherine Meyburgh - Biography. Festspiele. Berliner. www.berlinerfestspiele.de. en. 2019-11-13.
  3. Web site: Collaboration key in Opera Australia production of Alban Berg's Wozzeck. Galvin. Nick. 2019-01-24. The Sydney Morning Herald. en. 2019-11-13.
  4. Web site: Catherine Meyburgh. Encounters South African International Documentary Film Festival. en-US. 2019-11-13.
  5. Web site: Kentridge and Dumas in Conversation. www.cultureunplugged.com. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20191113053405/https://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentary/watch-online/play/54546/Kentridge---Dumas-in-Conversation . 2019-11-13 . 2019-11-13.
  6. Web site: In Conversation: Kentridge & Dumas. www.artfilms.com.au. 2019-11-13.
  7. Web site: Dying for Gold. www.dyingforgold.com. 2019-11-13.
  8. Web site: Catherine Meyburgh and Richard Pakleppa's Dying for Gold premieres at Hot Docs in Canada. 2019-04-29. Screen Africa. en-US. 2019-11-13.
  9. Web site: Dying for Gold. Encounters South African International Documentary Film Festival. en-US. 2019-11-13.
  10. Web site: Ubu and the Truth Commission » MITsp. 2022-01-05. en-US.
  11. Web site: Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) Opera. 2022-01-05. NEW NATIONAL THEATRE, TOKYO. en.
  12. Web site: 2016-10-11. William Kentridge's witty animations unravel the nature of time. 2022-01-05. The South African. en-ZA.
  13. Web site: Met Museum. live. 2022-01-05. www.metmuseum.org. https://web.archive.org/web/20160404001357/http://www.metmuseum.org/art/online-features/metcollects/the-refusal-of-time . 2016-04-04 .
  14. News: Cotter. Holland. 2013-11-28. William Kentridge: 'The Refusal of Time'. en-US. The New York Times. 2022-01-05. 0362-4331.
  15. Web site: Brave art. 2022-01-05. News24. en-US.
  16. Web site: Wozzeck: The Full Kentridge and Beyond. 2022-01-05. Schmopera. en-ca.
  17. Web site: Tate. William Kentridge: I am not me, the horse is not mine – Exhibition at Tate Modern. 2022-01-05. Tate. en-GB.
  18. Web site: Molelekwa. By: Thabo. Features. 2021-04-29. 'Can they just pay me before I die?'. 2022-01-05. New Frame.
  19. Web site: Davis. Rebecca. 2019-07-04. SILICOSIS: Dying for Gold: New documentary lays bare the stark debt SA owes its miners. 2022-01-05. Daily Maverick. en.
  20. Web site: The untold story of the making of South Africa. 2022-01-05. africasacountry.com. en-US.

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