The Burning Child

The Burning Child is a cinematic journey into the Viennese interior. Since about 1900, when Vienna became central Europe’s magnet metropolis, the city has inspired fateful dreams of home and homemaking. Its most famous denizens—Sigmund Freud, Gustav Klimt, Adolf Loos, and others—designed visionary interiors that determined the future of the modern home around the world. Part documentary and part personal journey, The Burning Child, in stunning, 4K digital format, explores the dream of homemaking in this most, and least, homely city. Through interviews, testimony, and archival footage, the film presents the Viennese domestic interior against the backdrop of Austria’s troubled past: with Hitler’s annexation of Austria in 1938, the concept of home came to a catastrophic end for Vienna’s most ardent homemakers.