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The New Man
No full textTurning the camera on themselves, Josh and Devorah film the process of becoming parents at a time when late reproduction is the norm and masculinity is in crisis. Having been through multiple rounds of IVF, the couple finally get pregnant, but when complications hit, they’re pushed to their limits. The New Man is a film for anyone who has children, is thinking of having them, or still feels like a child themselves.What emerges is a moving and intimate portrait of a generation going through a revolution that no one’s talking about. En route we hear from the likes of Slavoj Žižek, Zadie Smith, David Schneider, John Berger, Antony Gormley, Hisham Matar and Darian Leader.<br/
Fluidity, indeterminacy, interdependence: a conversation with Chloe Aridjis
No full textA discussion of the water theme in the work of Mexican novelist Chloe Aridjis
Husband
No full textA docufiction feature film centred on the trip I took to New York to launch my first book and the impact this had on my marriage at that time
How British film director Josh Appignanesi came to change the world
No full textOp-ed on climate actio
Husband
No full textBritish writer Devorah Baum has to tour America with her first book – a guide to guilt,paranoia, self-hatred, envy, and all the other feelings currently tearing our worldapart. A first-timer with two small kids in tow, she is stressed out. How can herhusband, help?Probably not by making a film about the whole trip. Before long, the feelings laid barein Devorah's book get played out between them, revealing how much remainsstubbornly unreconstructed in our supposedly modern relationships.Co-directed by and starring Josh Appignanesi and Devorah Baum in an auto-fictionaldocu-comedy collaboration, it’s a breathtakingly honest marriage comedy on thecusp between autofiction and documentary, it's a love letter to New York, literary life, and, er, Zadie Smith
My Extinction
No full textWhat does it take for us to act on the climate crisis – especially if we’re the kind of person who should already be acting? In this funny, relatable feature documentary, director Josh Appignanesi turns the camera on himself to chart the journey of a concerned yet ineffectual dad into climate action. He finds the first step is letting those unbearable feelings of climate anxiety in, instead of pushing them aside.But as he meets others like him, he discovers how oil-backed propagandists funded our denial and paralysis. He sets out to unmask the vested interests responsible, helping raise a generation’s leading authors in vibrant chorus - including Zadie Smith, Simon Schama, Ali Smith, David Graeber, George Monbiot, Juliet Stevenson, Simon McBurney, AL Kennedy, Peter Pomerantsev, not to mention Juliet Stevenson and Mark Rylance.Blending auto-ethnography, cultural activism, and documentary comedy, MY EXTINCTION is a revealingly honest account of how to feel your feelings, act on your privilege, and get active when threatened with extinction.Funded by the Arts Council and the Sigrid Rausing Trust, the 2023 release was supported by major NGOs (including Greenpeace, Quakers, EarthRise, XR, Project Everyone and others) selected for over 50 UK cinemas by both Picturehouse and Curzon, with multiple panel talks with high-level journalists and activists, as well as outreach and recruitment. Beyond reviews, widespread press features were commissioned and interviews given in key media including The Mirror, The Guardian, The Observer, Big Issue, Times Radio, BBC Radio and many other outlets.<br/
Envision Film Festival: Josh Larsen
No full textJosh Larsen, Radio Host, Author, Editor and Film Critic, Think Christian, Chicago, IL, speaks about the purpose and function of movies, and the possibility of seeing them as prayers.
This chapel preceded the Envision Film Festival
Josh Weil, 38th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textJosh Weil is the author of the novel The Great Glass Sea, a New York Times Editor\u27s Choice and finalist for the Center for Fiction\u27s Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Award, and the novella collection The New Valley, awarded the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the New Writers Award from the GLCA. A Fulbright Fellow and National Book Award 5-under-35 honoree, he has written for The New York Times, Granta, Tin House, One Story and Esquire, among others. He lives with his family in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas
2011-2012 Josh Weil
No full textJosh Weil is the author of the novel The Great Glass Sea, the novella collection The New Valley, and story collection The Age of Perpetual Light. He has been awarded the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Sue Kaufman Prize from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, the California Book Award, the Library of Virginia’s Literary Award, the GrubStreet National Book Prize, the New Writers Award from the GLCA, and a “5 Under 35” Award from the National Book Foundation. Weil’s short fiction has garnered a Pushcart Prize and appeared in Granta, Esquire, Tin House and One Story, among others. He has written non-fiction for The New York Times, Time.com, Poets & Writers and The Sun. A recipient of fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, the Merrill House, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, he has been the Picador Professor in Literature at the University of Leipzig, the Distinguished Visiting Writer at Bowling Green State University, the Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi, the Tickner Writer-in-Residence at Gilman School, and the Distinguished Lecturer at The Sozopol Writing Seminars. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, The New School, Brooklyn College, Sierra Nevada College, and Bennington College, as well as at numerous conferences, including the Squaw Valley Community of Writers and Bread Loaf. He lives with his family in the Sierra Nevada of Northern California. (Photo credit: Jilan Carroll Glorfield)https://egrove.olemiss.edu/grisham_res/1008/thumbnail.jp
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