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Tributes and Retrospectives - Mike Dibb
Crew:
Directors: Mike Dibb, Christopher Rawlence
Screenplay: John Berger (narrative script, adaptation and essays)
Production: Channel 4 Television Corporation, Third Eye Productions
Screenplay: John Berger (narrative script, adaptation and essays)
Production: Channel 4 Television Corporation, Third Eye Productions
Broadcast in the United Kingdom on May 22, 1985, this second episode of the miniseries About Time, directed by Mike Dibb, casts John Berger (1926-2017) as our host and guide, side by side with his wife, Beverly Bancroft. This TV series invites us to rethink the meaning of time and its effect on our lives.
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Cast:
John Berger, Beverly Bancrof -
Original Title:
Once Upon a Time -
Country:
United Kingdom -
Year:
1985 - 52’ Original Version EN
Crew:
Directors: Mike Dibb, Christopher Rawlence
Screenplay: John Berger (narrative script, adaptation and essays)
Production: Channel 4 Television Corporation, Third Eye Productions
Screenplay: John Berger (narrative script, adaptation and essays)
Production: Channel 4 Television Corporation, Third Eye Productions
Director
Mike Dibb

Mike Dibb is an acclaimed documentary filmmaker, most of which made for television, covering film, art, literature, music, science, sport and popular culture. After completing a degree at Trinity College, Dublin, he was hired in 1963 by BBC TV. He worked as an editor in the Film department until 1967, when he moved to the Music and Arts department, where he remained until 1981. During this period he directed several films, including multiple collaborations with writer John Berger (who in 2015 was a guest at LEFFEST ), the most well-known of which is the four-part series Ways of Seeing, awarded the BAFTA for Best Specialty Series and which later became a book translated and published worldwide, one of the most important for several generations of artists and students of art. Dibb has also made some films about writers, such as Octavio Paz, Lorca, A-S. Byatt or Elmore Leonard. In 1981, he joined Third Eyes Productions, where he continued to direct and produce, primarily for Channel Four. In 1986, he created his own production company, Dibb Directions Ltd. He collaborated with the BBC once again, making films and series such as Made In Latin America, about Latin American culture. In 1994, he co-directed with Stephen Frears the documentary Typically British, about the history of British cinema. His film The Miles Davis Story won the Royal Philharmonic Society Television Award and an Emmy for Best Art Documentary of the Year (2001). He also made a film about Keith Jarrett and another about the composer and bandoneon player Astor Piazolla.