The New Man (2016)
A creative documentary about becoming a parent... and how to reconceive yourself. Fiction director Josh Appignanesi turns the camera on himself and his wife as they undergo the ordeal of becoming parents in the era of man-children and assisted reproduction. Faced with fatherhood, Josh spirals comically into an envious career funk. But life-threatening complications emerge- the couple are tested to the brink, confronting shattering losses. It's a portrait of our generation going through a revolution in reproduction- forced to find new ways to think about ourselves as creative beings. We hear from Slavoj Žižek, John Berger, Darian Leader (20,000 Days) and Zadie Smith. Universal yet still taboo, it's a film for everyone who has children, wants them, or still feels like a child themselves.
Directors: Devorah Baum, Josh Appignanesi.
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Adam Andrusier as Self |
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Lisa Appignanesi as Self |
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Richard Appignanesi as Self |
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Chloe Aridjis as Self |
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Geoffrey Baum as Self |
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Josh Baum as Self |
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Shirley Baum as Self |
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John Berger as Self |
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Anna Colton as Self |
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Sophie Fiennes as Self |
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Katrina Forrester as Self |
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Antony Gormley as Self |
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Mark Greenfield as Self |
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Hannah Kuper as Self |
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Nick Laird as Self |
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Nikita Lalwani as Self |
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Darian Leader as Self |
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Yoni Magid as Self |
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Hisham Matar as Self |
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Simon McBurney as Self |
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Adam Rosenthal as Self |
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Renata Salecl as Self |
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David Schneider as Self |
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Poppy Sebag-Montefiore as Self |
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Danny Shine as Self |
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Tom Shkolnik as Self |
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Zadie Smith as Self |
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Slavoj Žižek as Self |
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Devorah Baum as Self |
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Josh Appignanesi as Self |
| Production | Sarah Mosses | Associate Producer |
| Production | Mia Bays | Associate Producer |
| Camera | Ben Turner | Camera Operator |
| Directing | Devorah Baum | Director |
| Production | David Baddiel | Executive Producer |
| Camera | Jonathan De Villiers | Camera Operator |
| Camera | Michael Sugarman | Camera Operator |
| Writing | Josh Appignanesi | Writer |
| Production | Josh Appignanesi | Producer |
| Production | Rivkah Brown | Publicist |
| Production | Devorah Baum | Producer |
| Production | Cavan Ash | Executive Producer |
| Camera | Halldora Magnusdottir | Camera Operator |
| Directing | Josh Appignanesi | Director |
| Editing | Devorah Baum | Editor |
| Writing | Devorah Baum | Writer |
| Editing | Josh Appignanesi | Editor |
| Production | Charlie Phillips | Executive Producer |
| Editing | Mat Troughton | Color Timer |
| Sound | Vincent Watts | Supervising Sound Editor |
| Camera | Josh Appignanesi | Director of Photography |
