The Burning Child (2019)
- Directed by
- Joseph Koerner
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 53m
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
An art historian traces his father's escape from Nazi-occupied Vienna and examines how modernist architecture reflects memory, trauma, and the idea of home. The film blends documentary, personal story, and dreamlike sequences.
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What happens
The Burning Child is a 2019 feature documentary film directed by Joseph Leo Koerner and Christian D. Bruun. Created by Harvard art historian Joseph Koerner, the film explores Viennese architectural Modernism through the story of Koerner's father, painter Henry Koerner, who escaped Vienna after Adolf Hitler's annexation of Austria. Part documentary, part personal narrative, part dream sequence, the film explores themes of home, landscape, memory, trauma, repetition, and exile. The film began streaming on Amazon Prime in 2022. A new German version of the film, titled Wohnungswanderung,is underway. A director's cut was screen May 7, 2024 as the inaugural film presentation at the newly expanded Wien Museum. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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