A DOCUMENTARY BY GILLES VERNET - Sources: https://etsionlevaitlesyeux.com/
The full documentary is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9hPwvw1X2c
The happy disconnect
"What if we looked up?" is a unique experiment conducted by a teacher-filmmaker and his Year 6 class. For 1 year, Gilles Vernet will discuss with his students, their parents and specialists the place of screens in our society, before taking them for 10 days of disconnection in the great outdoors.
This 52-minute documentary immerses the viewer in a world where meaning is explored. It addresses the dangers of children's overexposure to screens and doesn't shy away from the responsibility of everyone involved, including parents.
It's also a film where happiness, the desire to live together, and the freedom to breathe are palpable. It addresses a public health and democratic issue in an original, poignant, and authentic way.
A schoolteacher's struggle
Gilles Vernet, born in 1968 in Paris, is a former market operator who became a teacher, director, screenwriter, writer and lecturer.
He is best known for giving cinematic expression to the concept of acceleration by philosopher Hartmut Rosa in his film "Everything Speeds Up," released in theaters in 2016.
In this film and in his eponymous book, he reflects on the race against time in our societies, inviting us to abandon all guilt in the face of the exponential acceleration of the world and to reconnect with a healthy alternation of individual and collective rhythms.
A defender of the poetry of the world against financial and technological materialism, he invites us in his various films and works to the frugality of the simple happiness of loving.