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Mike Dibb (born Leeds, West Yorkshire, 1940) is an award-winning 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".〔(AFTERIMAGE: Engagements with the Cinematic, Arc magazine. )〕 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."〔Sukhdev Sandhu, ("Ways of Seeing opened our eyes to visual culture" ), ''The Guardian'', 7 September 2012.〕 Mike Dibb is the father of film director Saul Dibb. ==Career== After graduating from Trinity College, Dublin, with a BA (Hons) degree, Mike Dibb joined BBC TV in 1963. He worked as an Assistant Film Editor/Film Editor in the BBC Film Department until 1967, and then joined the Music and Arts Department. Between 1967 and 1971 he directed numerous films on a range of subjects for various BBC series, including ''The Movies'', ''Moviemakers at the NFT'', ''Canvas'', ''The Craftsmen'', ''New Release'', ''Omnibus''. In 1972 he produced a four-part series of 30-minute films called ''Ways of Seeing'', now regarded not only as "a landmark work of British arts broadcasting, but as a key moment in the democratisation of art education".〔 Scripted by writer John Berger, ''Ways of Seeing'' won a BAFTA Award for Best Specialised Series, and was later the basis of a bestselling book. In 1983, Dibb left the staff of the BBC to work independently. He joined Third Eye Productions, a company formed by several other ex-members of the BBC Music and Arts department, including Barrie Gavin, Peter West and Geoff Haydon. After 1986 Dibb began to make many of his films through his own company, Dibb Directions Ltd (DD). The many notable documentaries he has made include ''The Spirit of Lorca'', about poet Federico García Lorca (in collaboration with Lorca's biographer Ian Gibson, 1986; Gold Award NY Festival of Film and TV) and ''What’s Cuba Playing At?'' (on the Afro-Spanish roots of Cuban music; BBC Arena, 1985), ''Tango Maestro – The life and music of Astor Piazzolla'' (2005, BBC), and ''Keith Jarrett – The Art of Improvisation'' (2005, Channel 4). With Stephen Frears in 1994 he co-directed ''Typically British'', a BFI/Channel 4 documentary on the history of British cinema. In November 2011, Dibb participated in a Masterclass in conversation with David A. Bailey as part of the International Curators Forum two-day intervention at the Arnolfini in Bristol. His two-hour film ''The Miles Davis Story'' (DD and Channel 4 Television) won the Royal Philharmonic Society TV award and an International Emmy award for arts documentary of the year 2001. Dibb's most recent film, ''Barbara Thompson: Playing Against Time'', is a 75-minute "musical-medico" documentary film "about Parkinson's disease seen through the prism of music", chronicling the celebrated saxophonist's fight to keep performing despite having developed the condition.〔(Hilary Rose and Steven Rose, "Beats and the brain", ''The Lancet'', 28 January 2012. )〕 It was first transmitted on BBC Four on 19 February 2012.〔("BBC finally fix transmission date for Barbara Thompson documentary "Playing against Time", Colin Richardson's blog, 5 February 2012. )〕〔("Barbara Thompson: Playing Against Time", Media Centre, BBC. )〕 His first book, ''Spellwell'' (2010, Muswell Press), written in rhyming couplets and illustrated by Roddy Maude-Roxby, was a playful guide to the idiosyncrasies of English-language spelling.〔.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mike Dibb」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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