( Quand le cerveau n'en fait qu'à sa tête )
Maryse Bergonzat
2011 - 52 min - Vidéo HD - Couleur - France
Sometimes comical but often tragic, sleepiness takes an important part in our lives.
First cause of lethal highway accidents, drowsiness invites itself in our work.
What happens with our brain? Can we master sleepiness?
By working on the sleep and especially on the functioning of awakening, researchers try to understand the biological and environmental mechanisms that maintain man at the top of his capacities.
What if drowsiness was there to prove that we are not machines?
Author-Director : Maryse Bergonzat
Author : Denis Van Waerebeke
Photography : Georgi Lazarevski
Sound : Stephan Bauer
Editing : Josiane Zardoya, Linda Attab-Apenouvon, Tessa Louise-Salomé
Original Music : Gilles Carles
Delegate Producer : Quark Production
Co-producer : CNRS Images
Broadcasting Co-producer : ARTE France
Contribution : CNC, INSERM (Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale), DICOM (Délégation à l'Information et à la Communication)