Clive Myer is an award winning independent filmmaker, artist and film curator. He was founder Director of the International Film School Wales at the University of Wales Newport; the Film Academy at the University of Glamorgan and the Skillset Screen Academy Wales, where he developed and taught undergraduate and postgradute film courses. He previously taught at Goldsmiths’ College, Chelsea College of Art and the London College of Communication. He also spent several years making worldwide travel films, the material from which he was able to incorporate within his experimental films.
He is author and editor of Critical Cinema: Beyond the Theory of Practice published by Columbia University Press. He was Artist-in-Residence at The Lock-up Gallery, Newcastle, Australia and has exhibited at the Hayward Gallery London, the G39 gallery in Cardiff as part of Experimentica, the Catalyst Gallery, Belfast and the P3 gallery in London.
He initiated Ffresh, the student moving image festival of Wales and served as director and the Chair of WOW, Wales One World film festival.
He is the recipient of the International Visual Communication Association Award for Enterprise. He co-founded Eclectic Films with his partner Lynda Myer-Bennett. Eclectic was co-Producer of The Portrait – winner of the BAFTA Cymru Award for Best Short Film. Their feature films The Orchard, Maurice El Medioni: The Birth of PianOriental and The Mire Archive received several international film awards, including Best Feature Film, Amsterdam Film Festival Van Gogh Screenplay Competition and winner of Best Foreign Film, Yosemite International Film Festival, USA.
Clive is a graduate of the Royal College of Art, where he obtained an MA and a PhD. He was an undergraduate at Southport School of Art and Crafts and the London College of Communication.
Exhibitions 1972 – present
- Arts Council of GB Film Tour
- 4th Dimension Independent Film Festival, Bali
- Bangor Cult Fiction Festival
- BBC British Short Film Festival, London
- Berlin Film Festival
- Beyond the Curve International Film Festival, Paris
- Borderlines Film Festival, Hereford/Malvern
- Bracknell Video Festival
- Bristol Arts Centre
- Bristol Film-makers Co-op
- British Independents Weekend School
- Budapest Film Festival
- Catalyst Art Gallery, Belfast
- Celtic Film Festival
- Centre for Advanced Inquiry in Interactive Arts
- Chapter Arts Centre
- CLIMAX Festival Internacional de Cinema Independiente, Madrid
- Corsica Film Festival
- Covent Garden Cinema, London
- Edinburgh International Film Festival
- Edinburgh Television Festival
- Experimental Film Conference, Preston
- Experimentica, G39 Gallery, Cardiff
- Faro Concurso de Cinema Mediterrâneo e Mundial, Portugal
- Festival of International Film and the Press, Strasbourg
- Filmhaus, Berlin
- Film Revolution, Montreal
- Forest of Dean Film Festival
- Global Nonviolent Film Festival, Toronto
- Granada Television
- Hamburg Filmshau
- History Now, Haywood Gallery, London
- Hong Kong Television
- Indie Mania, Prague
- Independent Experimental Film Festival, Knokke, Belgium
- Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
- International Film Festival of Wales
- Intersections: Forays in Ethnography and Art
- ITV Wales
- KeyFrame Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro
- Lock-up Gallery, New South Wales, Australia.
- London Film-makers Co-op (one man show)
- London Independent Avant-Garde Film Festival, NFT
- London Video Festival
- National Film and Television Archive
- National Film Theatre, London
- Newcastle University, New South Wales, Australia
- Nocturna Film Festival, Brooklyn
- Oaxaca FilmFest, Mexico
- Oxford Museum of Modern Art
- Performing Arts Research in Practice
- Paris Pullman Cinema, London
- P3 Gallery, London
- Phoenix Cinema, London
- Ritzy Cinema, London
- Serpentine Gallery, London
- Shop Stewards’ Media Education Weekend
- Singapore Television
- Society for Education in Film and Television Weekend on Independent Cinema
- South West Arts Film Tour
- Swedish International Film Festival
- Wallachia International Film Festival, Bucharest
- Watershed Arts Centre, Bristol
