John Burgan
Lecturer in Media ProductionEnglish Language & Literature (Newcastle upon Tyne), National Film & Television School
Contact
Email: jub@aber.ac.uk
Office: B33a Hugh Owen
Phone: 01970 628464
Teaching Areas
Documentary and media production; screenwriting.
Research
Interests include memory; creative use of archive; doc-fiction crossover and the essay film.
Biography
Trained at the BBC and the National Film & TV School. Based in Berlin, Germany 1992-2006 working as a writer, director, editor and teacher, mainly in the non-fiction field. Lecturer in Film/Experimental Media at the University of the Arts, Berlin (1996-2001). Taught the documentary course at the European Film College, Denmark (2006-8).
Staff Publications
Films (selection as writer/director & editor)
"Memory of Berlin" (ZDF Das Kleine Fernsehspiel, 1998, 76 mins)
"Behind Words" (MDR/Network Migration, 2004, 90 mins)
"Friendly Enemy Alien" (ZDF Das Kleine Fernsehspiel, 2006, 90 mins)
"Memories of Rain" (Dir: Mai/Albrecht-Meisner 2004) (as consulting producer)
Books
Selected commentary to "Memory of Berlin" published in Grand Street/Berlin (New York, 1999).
Various entries ("Robert Vas"; "The Back of Beyond"; "Jean-Pierre Gorin") in the "Encyclopaedia of the Documentary Film" ed. Ian Aitken. New York and
London: Routledge, 2006
Translator from German to English ("Dreams this Side of the Real" in "Gottfried Salzmann" by Nikolaus Schaffer. Thalia Editions, Paris, 2006).