Beyond Boundaries: An interview with Mike Dibb by Suite (212)

In the July 2018 edition of Suite (212), Tom Overton talks to Mike Dibb (http://www.mikedibb.co.uk) about a documentary filmmaking career that has spanned more than fifty years. As well as directed John Berger's legendary BBC TV series 'Ways of Seeing' (1972), Dibb has adapted books by Raymond Williams and C.L.R. James, made documentaries about art, music and sport, and is currently making a film about artist Donny Johnson, who has spent almost his entire adult life in the U.S. prison system.

SELECTED REFERENCES

WORKS BY MIKE DIBB
About Time (1983-85) - http://www.mikedibb.co.uk/filmdet.php?filmid=42
A Curious Mind - AS Byatt (1996) - http://www.mikedibb.co.uk/filmdet.php?filmid=61
The Fame and Shame of Salvador Dalí (1997-98) - http://www.mikedibb.co.uk/filmdet.php?filmid=63
The Miles Davis Story (2001) - http://www.mikedibb.co.uk/filmdet.php?filmid=65
Fields of Play (1981-82) - http://www.mikedibb.co.uk/filmdet.php?filmid=36
Seeing Through Drawing (1977-78) - http://www.mikesouthon.biz/portfolio/seeing-through-drawing
Ralph Steadman (Arena, 1977-78) - http://www.mikedibb.co.uk/filmdet.php?filmid=26
Studs Terkel's Chicago (1985) - http://mediaburn.org/video/omnibus-studs-terkels-chicago-4/
Ways of Seeing (1972) - http://ubu.com/film/berger_seeing.html

Paul Barker (journalist/writer) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Barker_(writer)
WALTER BENJAMIN, 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction' (1936) - https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm
JOHN BERGER & JEAN MOHR, A Seventh Man: Migrant Workers in Europe (1975) - https://www.versobooks.com/books/533-a-seventh-man
Civilisation (TV series, 1968) - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/feb/04/civilisation-revisited-kenneth-clark-television-landmark-series-art
C.L.R. JAMES, Beyond a Boundary (1963) - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/apr/02/beyond-a-boundary-broke-cricket-barriers
Donny Johnson - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donny_Johnson
F. R. LEAVIS - http://www.leavissociety.com/life-and-work/index.html
Lift to the Scaffold (dir. Louis Malle, 1958) - https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/louis-malles-elevator-to-the-gallows-and-its-historic-miles-davis-soundtrack
George Melly - https://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/jul/05/1
Malcolm Muggeridge - https://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/15/obituaries/malcolm-muggeridge-writer-dies-at-87.html
Orchestra to the Orient (dir. David Attenborough, 1963) - https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/bb311d02e65445d0b7a0ef1357feff5e
Sukhdev Sandhu on 'Ways of Seeing' - https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2012/sep/07/ways-seeing-berger-tv-programme-british
The Stranger (dir. Orson Welles, 1946) - http://archive.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2010/10/10/reevaluating_orson_welless_near_perfect_stranger/