Clive Myer
Production
Biography
Clive Myer is an avant-garde English filmmaker born in Southport. He graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1974. He is the founder of Eclectic Films. In his career, he held the positions of director of the International Film School Wales, the Film Academy at the University of Glamorgan, and the co-director of the Skillset Screen Academy Wales. In 2012, Wallflower Press published his book, Critical Cinema: Beyond the Theory of Practice. Myer met his wife Lynda Bennett while he was lecturing on film at London's Goldsmith College in 1980. Their daughter Dorothea is an actor at the Shakespeare Tobacco Factory in Bristol, and their son George works with Vertigo Films.
Known For
'Dyn Amo' is a 'drama' exploring the distinction between a person's self and his projection of that self to others; and it's a 'horror movie' tragically suggesting how a projection can become more substantial than the self behind it. Its subjects are role-playing (especially sexual role-playing), and the masochism of playing a role that conforms to others' exploitative interests.
Dyn Amo
A series of non-dramatic tableaux representing scenes from De Sade's novel.
Justine
The film examines some complex dilemmas within three generations of one family. Through the painting of a portrait we are asked to consider: Is it ever better not to know some things than to know them? Does secrecy protect or damage those we love? Can all things be forgiven and forgotten?
The Portrait
Evolves around the rooms of a house as one of the main characters, Lisiska, is waiting and is studied in depth as she prepares herself for a meeting. The film attempts to display sexual barriers and misconceptions, and about the role-playing and the confusion around the whole question of sexual and sensual involvement. The essence is the confrontation with self-deception, lies and the real fear of contact with both sexes.
Death and Devil
An experimental dance film featuring members of the Ballet Rambert, one of the world’s most renowned dance companies, performing to the music of Gavin Bryars.