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Mike Dibb

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Michael Dibb

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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.

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Film Performances

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Film Production

Director:
1967  The Nomad
1968  One to One: Jean-Luc Godard Speaks
1972  Bette Davis
1976  Beyond a Boundary
1979  Pig Earth
1979  The Country and the City
1980  Parting Shots from Animals
1984  CLR James Talking to Stuart Hall
1985  About Time
1985  Studs Terkel's Chicago
1986  The Spirit of Lorca
1994  A Telling Eye: The Work of John Berger
1995  The Further Adventures of Don Quixote
1995  Typically British: A Personal History of British Cinema
2001  The Miles Davis Story
2004  Edward Said: The Last Interview
2004  Keith Jarrett: The Art of Improvisation
2009  Personally Speaking: A Long Conversation with Stuart Hall
2012  Barbara Thompson: Playing Against Time
????  Rex Harrison at the N.F.T.

Producer:
1967  The Nomad
1968  One to One: Jean-Luc Godard Speaks
1972  Bette Davis
1976  Beyond a Boundary
1979  Pig Earth
1979  The Country and the City
1980  Parting Shots from Animals
1984  CLR James Talking to Stuart Hall
1985  About Time
1985  Studs Terkel's Chicago
1986  The Spirit of Lorca
1991  Appalachian Journey
1994  A Telling Eye: The Work of John Berger
1995  The Further Adventures of Don Quixote
1995  Typically British: A Personal History of British Cinema
2001  The Miles Davis Story
2004  Edward Said: The Last Interview
2004  Keith Jarrett: The Art of Improvisation
2009  Personally Speaking: A Long Conversation with Stuart Hall
2012  Barbara Thompson: Playing Against Time
????  Rex Harrison at the N.F.T.

Writer:
1967  The Nomad
1968  One to One: Jean-Luc Godard Speaks
1972  Bette Davis
1976  Beyond a Boundary
1979  Pig Earth
1979  The Country and the City
1980  Parting Shots from Animals
1984  CLR James Talking to Stuart Hall
1985  About Time
1985  Studs Terkel's Chicago
1986  The Spirit of Lorca
1991  Appalachian Journey
1994  A Telling Eye: The Work of John Berger
1995  The Further Adventures of Don Quixote
1995  Typically British: A Personal History of British Cinema
2001  The Miles Davis Story
2004  Edward Said: The Last Interview
2004  Keith Jarrett: The Art of Improvisation
2009  Personally Speaking: A Long Conversation with Stuart Hall
2012  Barbara Thompson: Playing Against Time
????  Rex Harrison at the N.F.T.

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TV Production

Director:
1972  Ways of Seeing
1990  American Patchwork: Songs and Stories of America

Producer:
1972  Ways of Seeing
1990  American Patchwork: Songs and Stories of America

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