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Wonder House

    • Director

      Oonagh Kearney

    • Credits

      Producer: John Kelleher. Writer: Oonagh Kearney

    • Principal Cast

      Sophie Scully

  • Category

    Feature
    Documentary

Wonder House is a meditative, mesmerising journey through rooms full of exciting ideas and striking visual concepts. This debut film from London-based Irish filmmaker Oonagh Kearney is an experimental work which combines documentary with a loose fictional narrative to explore the attractions of art and science. The film explores how curious young minds are engaged by childhood objects and environment. A young girl wanders through an old house, captivated by the scientific phenomena she encounters in a series of beautifully choreographed dance sequences, playful stop-motion animation and the recorded voices of real scientists recalling their first encounters with science.

Notes by Sunniva O'Flynn

71 minutes, Ireland, 2012, Colour


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