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John Burgan FRSA (born in 1962 in London) is an independent documentary director and writer. Many of his films are themed around identity, sense of belonging, and migration. Burgan is best known for his 1998 documentary essay Memory of Berlin.[1] Sometimes autobiographical, sometimes observational, he takes the viewer on a search for identity, sharing his own roots as English adoptee as well as reflecting on the torn identity of the city he chose to live in: Berlin. The film was shown in many film festivals around the world and received the first prize at the Marseille festival "Vue sur les Docs".[2] The film was repeatedly broadcast by ZDF and Arte. Selected commentary to "Memory of Berlin" was published in Grand Street. In Friendly Enemy Alien[3] Burgan asks: "Friends, enemies, aliens: is it possible to be all three at once? June 1940: Jewish refugees from Austria, Germany and Italy flee Hitler at the outbreak of the war and are given asylum in England, to be interned as suspected spies, shipped off on the HMT Dunera to Australia to endure months behind barbed wire deep in the outback."[4] Friendly Enemy Alien was first broadcast by ZDF in Germany in August 2006.[5] The Daily Telegraph quotes John Burgan on his motives for making this film: "Refugees are invariably unwanted and unloved when they arrive, but being at the bottom of the heap they knuckle down and make the best of the chance they've been given, to become an asset to their adopted country."[6]Chris Marker said about John Burgan's work: "I guess it's about time for the First-Person film to become a genre by itself, and for historians to wonder why, as it had been at the roots of literature, it took so much time to the cinema to catch up. I don't take any risk at predicting Memory of Berlin will be considered as a milestone in the road of the film-essay."[7] The film was included in the Planète Marker retrospective at the Pompidou Centre in Paris, December 2013.[8]BiographyJohn Burgan grew up in Kingston upon Hull, East Yorkshire where he attended Hymers College. He read English Language and Literature at Newcastle University from 1981 to 1984, then worked as a picture editor at the BBC before attending the National Film and Television School from 1989 to 1992. He was chosen by Richard Attenborough to receive the Student Award attached to his own 1992 Shakespeare Prize (Alfred Toepfer Stiftung F.V.S.). Previous recipients include director Sam Mendes.[9] In 1992, Burgan moved to Berlin and was awarded a Nipkow Programme Fellowship to develop the documentary essay, Memory of Berlin, completed in 1998.[10] In Berlin, Burgan worked as a writer, director and editor and also taught documentary and media production at the Berlin University of the Arts and also served as guest professor, giving workshops at the University of Fine Arts, Hamburg and Bilgi University, Istanbul. He was artist-in-residence at the Villa Aurora Los Angeles in 2003.[11] In 2005, he joined Doug Block and Ben Kempas in hosting The D-Word, an online community for documentary filmmakers.[12] John Burgan is the author of entries on Robert Vas, Jean-Pierre Gorin and The Back of Beyond in the Encyclopaedia of the Documentary Film edited by Ian Aitken.[13] Burgan's Friendly Enemy Alien received "Best Documentary" at the "Achtung Berlin New Berlin Film Awards" in 2006.[14] John Burgan taught the documentary course at the European Film College in Ebeltoft, Denmark for two years from 2006 before returning to the United Kingdom to take up a teaching and research post at Aberystwyth University in 2008. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, he is currently Visiting Fellow at the University of South Wales and once again based in the German capital.[15] Films
He also worked as a consultant on Memories of Rain (2004) and Cinemania (2002). He is credited as "John 'The Godfather' Burgan" on the latter.[17] References1. ^https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/essay-films "Thought in Action: The Art of the Essay Film" film listing in BFI season {{DEFAULTSORT:Burgan, John}}2. ^Memory of Berlin List of screenings 3. ^Friendly Enemy Alien at distributor's website 4. ^German United Distributors about Friendly Enemy Alien 5. ^Tageszeitung (German newspaper) on Friendly Enemy Alien 6. ^[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/4200115/Film-shows-suffering-of-Jews-Britain-sent-to-Outback-exile.html The Daily Telegraph (UK newspaper)] on Friendly Enemy Alien 7. ^Chris Marker, 1998, cited in 10 Jahre Villa Aurora 1995–2005, Berlin, 2005 8. ^ Planète Marker retrospective, Paris October – December 2013 9. ^The Guardian Article about Shakespeare Prize 10. ^Nipkow Programme Fellowships 11. ^Villa Aurora Bio 12. ^The D-Word Documentary community 13. ^New York and London: Routledge, 2006 14. ^Achtung Berlin New Berlin Film Awards 15. ^Visiting Fellow Staff Profile, University of South Wales 16. ^Behind Words at distributor's website 17. ^[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1564762/ IMDb] John Burgan 10 : 1962 births|Living people|British documentary filmmakers|English documentary filmmakers|English writers|Alumni of Newcastle University|Alumni of the National Film and Television School|Berlin University of the Arts faculty|Academics of Aberystwyth University|English male writers |
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