Josh Appignanesi

Married couple Appignanesi and Baum an English literature university professor, attempt to figure out their relationship on screen, involving an angst-riddled trip to the United States.

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.

With his innocuous selfie-stick, Josh moves unnoticed through Dubai's seductive slickness and comes face to face with the irony of an oil baron hosting this last-chance climate saloon in a techno-utopian leisure city built in a burning desert.