A Listening Eye: The Films of Mike Dibb
Whitechapel Gallery, London
Curators: Colm McAuliffe, Matthew Harle
February - June 2021
A comprehensive exhibition of multi-award-winning doucmentarian Mike Dibb’s work. Perhaps best known for Ways of Seeing, his pioneering and vastly influential television essay on art and society made with John Berger, but he has directed dozens of important films in a career spanning six decades.
The pioneering work undertaken by Dibb across the landscape of the television documentary format operates at the forefront of radical, intellectual ideas combined with a startling facility for empathetic storytelling. Diverse by nature, Dibb’s work has traversed the fields of post-colonial literature, improvisatory jazz, and the very nature of concepts such as creativity and play, while always remaining grounded in everyday experience.
Dedicated to the memory of Louis Benassi (1961-2020), film-maker, comrade, friend.
Guardian article
Whitechapel Gallery, London
Curators: Colm McAuliffe, Matthew Harle
February - June 2021
A comprehensive exhibition of multi-award-winning doucmentarian Mike Dibb’s work. Perhaps best known for Ways of Seeing, his pioneering and vastly influential television essay on art and society made with John Berger, but he has directed dozens of important films in a career spanning six decades.
The pioneering work undertaken by Dibb across the landscape of the television documentary format operates at the forefront of radical, intellectual ideas combined with a startling facility for empathetic storytelling. Diverse by nature, Dibb’s work has traversed the fields of post-colonial literature, improvisatory jazz, and the very nature of concepts such as creativity and play, while always remaining grounded in everyday experience.
Dedicated to the memory of Louis Benassi (1961-2020), film-maker, comrade, friend.
Guardian article
