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.