Mike Dibb | |
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| Born | Michael Dibb 29 April 1940 |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Dublin |
| Occupation | Documentary filmmaker |
| Notable work | Ways of Seeing (1972) The Spirit of Lorca (1986) The Miles Davis Story (2001) |
| Children | Saul Dibb, Sam Dibb, Linda Dibb |
| Website | www |
Mike Dibb (born Wharfedale, Bradford, West Yorkshire, 29 April 1940)[1] 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".[2] Dibb has made many acclaimed films about musicians, artists and writers, including on Federico García Lorca, C. L. R. James, Astor Piazzolla, Miles Davis, Keith Jarrett, Barbara Thompson, and other notable subjects. Sukhdev Sandhu wrote 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."[3] Mike Dibb is the father of film director Saul Dibb.
A 1972 TV series was a British arts broadcasting landmark, but in recent celebrations the role of the director has been forgotten.