Cliff Bestall

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Cliff Bestall (19**-) is a lecturer, designer, director and cinematographer

Also credited as Clifford Bestall.

Biography

He attended Jeppe High School (1958-1968), then obtained a Diploma in Graphic Design and Art, Design and printmaking from the Durban University of Technology (1966 - 1968). Then became a lecturer at the University of Cape Town (1969 - 1980), teaching video art, figure drawing, printmaking and design. In 1979 he formed Shadow Pictures, a documentary film company, inter alia working with BBC Television.


Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

Theatre work:

Along with Adrian Kohler he did the design for Tsafendas which was staged at The Space in 1976.

Film work:

This has included Passing the Message (1981), , Djadje – Last Night I Fell Off a Horse (1993), Witness Hillbrow: Between Heaven and Hell (2012), and Sinner (2016).

For a full listing of his work, see the entry on him on IMDb[1]

Sources

Astbury 1979.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1626662/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/clifford-bestall-560ba517/?originalSubdomain=za

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