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Mike Dibb

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.

On screen

  • John Berger or The Art of Looking

Behind the camera

  • 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
  • The Further Adventures of Don Quixote
  • Typically British: A Personal History of British Cinema
  • 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
  • The Country and the City
  • Pig Earth
  • Beyond a Boundary
  • One to One: Jean-Luc Godard Speaks
  • The Nomad
  • The Making of Jean Luc Godard's 'One Plus One'

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