Oonagh Kearney will attend the screening.
Wonder House explores the creative process by inviting scientists to recall those childhood memories that sparked their imaginations. Using these recollections as a starting point, it celebrates the role of play in the early development of a love for science and art. Depicting a young girl’s journey of discovery through an old house, it illustrates how a child’s sense of wonder is sparked by an object or an experience.
Moving from room to room, the young girl, Sive, encounters endless possibilities for play, wonder, magic and discovery. In tandem with her visual journey, the scientists’ voices describe personal moments of inspiration, from the impact of objects and toys to the influence of teachers and the great outdoors, from Lego, clocks and spinning tops to sheer wonderment at the sky above. What emerges is not just a sense of the imaginative impulses behind scientific enquiry, but a feeling for how a child’s curiosity relates to iconic moments in the history of science.
Funded as an experimental arts documentary, Wonder House offers a fictional synthesis of fantasy and fact, science and art, imagination and reality. “If you look into the fire, you will see a house…” - Oonagh Kearney
Reel Art is an Arts Council scheme designed to provide film artists with a unique opportunity to make highly creative, imaginative and experimental documentaries on an artistic theme.