Mike Dibb
Biography
Mike Dibb (born Wharfedale, Bradford, West Yorkshire, 29 April 1940) is an English documentary filmmaker. In almost half a century of making films mainly for television – on subjects including cinema, literature, art, jazz, sport and popular culture – "he has defined and re-defined not only the televisual art documentary genre but has been able to make moving image pieces as a form of self portraiture". Dibb has made many acclaimed films, including on Federico García Lorca, C. L. R. James, Astor Piazzolla, Miles Davis, Keith Jarrett, Barbara Thompson and other notable subjects. In the words of Sukhdev Sandhu in The Guardian: "In a career spanning almost five decades, it's possible Dibb has shaped more ideas and offered more ways of seeing than any other TV documentarian of his generation." Mike Dibb is the father of film director Saul Dibb.
Directed Films
Barbara Thompson: Playing Against Time
Personally Speaking: A Long Conversation with Stuart Hall
Keith Jarrett: The Art of Improvisation
Edward Said: The Last Interview
The Miles Davis Story
The Beginning of the End of the Affair
Typically British: A Personal History of British Cinema
The Further Adventures of Don Quixote
A Telling Eye: The Work of John Berger
The Spirit of Lorca
Studs Terkel's Chicago
About Time
CLR James Talking to Stuart Hall
Parting Shots from Animals
Pig Earth
The Country and the City
Beyond a Boundary
One to One: Jean-Luc Godard Speaks
The Nomad
