The Burning Child (2019)

Directed by

Joseph Koerner

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 53m

Elsewhere

IMDb

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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