WAITING FOR IMMORTALITY

A film by Sylvie Blum

DOCUMENTARY / 90' / ARTE FRANCE / 2016

Synopsis

Are science and technology about to break through the greatest of all frontiers and render human beings immortal? Cryonics technology is improving. Human cloning is within our reach. Research on mind uploading and digital brain simulation is thriving. Reversing the decline of organs and cells now seems feasible. Our film travels to the U.S., Canada and Europe, examining the high hopes and the thorny social and moral questions being raised by these new technologies.

Credits

Directing : Sylvie Blum
Screenplay : Sylvie Blum, Caroline Arrighi de Casanova
Photography : Thibault Delavigne, Jean-Philippe Bouyer, Alberto Marquardt
Editing : Giles Gardner
Sound Recording : Marc Soupa
Documentation : Nancy Marcotte
Voice-over : Sylvie Blum
Original Score : Guillaume Thibert
Colour Grading : François Masingue
Mix : Myriam René
Production : What’s Up Films
Partners :

In coproduction with ARTE France, ARGUS FILMS and Radio Canada
Distributed by ZED

Festival(s) :

Sheffield Meetmarket (2014)

Selected at the Festival de Luchon (2015)