Wonders Are Many follows composer John Adams and director Peter Sellars over the course of a year as they work to forge the tale of J. Robert Oppenheimer into a grand opera like no other, the strange and beautiful “Doctor Atomic.” As Sellars and Adams struggle to make high art from the most savage weapon in history, the film also explores the unnerving 60-year evolution of nuclear weapons. Implicit throughout the film is the question: “How can art make history relevant to current affairs?” Wonders Are Many makes a powerful assertion that as the Greeks understood so well public art is essential to the public good.

(92 minutes)
Official Selection: Sundance Film Festival.