Due to unforeseen circumstances\,
this event is cancelled until further notice.
Canadian
premiere with filmmaker in attendance
Tuesday\, March 17\, 2020. This
event is free and open to the public
First come\, first seated. Doors
at 6:15 p.m. Screening at 6:30 p.m. with Q&A to follow
The Cinematheq
ue\, 1131 Howe Street
Haunted by his father’s portrait of his g randparents who vanished in the Holocaust\, Joseph Koerner returns to Vienn a to solve their mystery.
With his father’s painting as his guide\, K oerner visits historians\, architects\, and artists who conjure Vienna’s pa ssion for homemaking—the apartments\, bars\, galleries\, and sanatoria that are the triumphs of modern interior design. He enters interiors created by Gustav Klimt and Sigmund Freud that bring to light the dark recesses of th e soul.
Completed eighty years after the Anschluss\, The Burning Child is a moving\, visually stunning journey through Vienna’s urban a nd psychic interior to a buried past\, when dreams of home became\, for a c ity’s most ardent homemakers\, an unimaginable nightmare.
“We enter interiors—of Viennese homes\, of people’s dreams and aspirat ions—to confront how we construct identity and meaning. A remarkable film.” —Yo-Yo Ma
The screening is followed by a Q&A and c onversation and between Joseph Leo Koerner and Catherine Soussloff\, Profes sor\; Department of Art History\, Visual Art & Theory at UBC.
Joseph Leo Koerner is the Thomas Professor of History of Art and Senior Fellow of the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. He is author\, most recently\ , of Bosch and Bruegel: From Enemy Painting to Everyday Life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAilQKEza_A
The Burning
Child
Country of Origin: USA
Year: 2019
Running Time: 1
12 mins
Format: DCP
Language: In English\, German with English su
btitles
Credits: Directed by Joseph Leo Koerner. Directed by Christia n D. Bruun. Produced by Joseph Leo Koerner\, Christian D. Bruun\, Bo-Mi Cho i. Edited by Sabine Krayenbühl. Written by Joseph Leo Koerner. Cinematograp hy: Christian D. Bruun. Original Score: Anthony Cheung. With support from t he Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Harvard University.
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