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

1. Ways of Seeing (1972) — Director
2. Edward Said: The Last Interview (2004) — Director
3. Typically British: A Personal History of British Cinema (1995) — Director
4. The Miles Davis Story (2001) — Director
5. Keith Jarrett: The Art of Improvisation (2005) — Director
6. About Time (1985) — Director
7. The Country and the City (1979) — Director
8. Personally Speaking: A Long Conversation with Stuart Hall (2009) — Director
9. The Spirit of Lorca (1986) — Director
10. The Further Adventures of Don Quixote (1995) — Director
11. One to One: Jean-Luc Godard Speaks (1968) — Director
12. A Telling Eye: The Work of John Berger (1994) — Director
13. Barbara Thompson: Playing Against Time (2012) — Director
14. Studs Terkel's Chicago (1985) — Director
15. Beyond a Boundary (1976) — Director
16. CLR James Talking to Stuart Hall (1984) — Director
17. Pig Earth (1979) — Director
18. Parting Shots from Animals (1980) — Director
19. The Nomad (1967) — Director
20. Rex Harrison at the N.F.T. — Director
21. Bette Davis (1972) — Director
22. The Making of Jean Luc Godard's 'One Plus One' — Director
23. The Beginning of the End of the Affair (2000) — Director
24. American Patchwork: Songs and Stories of America (1990) — Director

Also appeared in

1. John Berger or The Art of Looking (2016) — Self