![]() ![]() By the end of the film, it’s a journey into just a little bit more sincerity than someone like me normally wants to admit to. Of course, it’s also true that humour is a defense – a necessary one, but still a defense. But that alleviates things, to have them shared. And yes, some harder feelings get felt as well. JA: Partly you just show the reality of groups involved in climate change, which really are warm and fun. We’re all having those conversations with family or in our heads, but it’s rarely seen, so we feel alone in it.ĭI: How does one make a warm and fun film about the climate crisis? Those behind-the-scenes conversations with your partner where you do start talking about the future of your kids, or the state of the world, and then it’s too upsetting so you change the subject. I hope the other thing it brings is intimacy. I’m the butt of the joke a lot of the time – the more or less privileged no-longer-young white guy who in some sense might be though of as “part of the problem” – and I’m hoping that’s a way in for people, because I’m anything but an altruist or a saint. Especially in climate films which are usually guilt-inspiring, or doomy, or a bit flag-waving and worthy. That’s what I hope the film depicts.ĭI: What can audiences expect from the film? You just have to make that first step – and then it’s actually fun, spending one night a week not lying on the sofa binge-watching reality shows but hanging out with folk, learning things, doing things. And in that getting together, suddenly all kinds of really helpful and effective things became possible. Except they’d gotten together to talk about it. I guess I felt I’d either have to radically change every aspect of my life to do anything at all - quite a high bar of entry to set yourself – or just keep tootling on with not doing much.īut in actual fact, as I dabbled in things, as I met people who were already doing something, what I found were people from all walks of life who were totally normal and felt a lot the way I did. And so we worry a bit, then consider recycling more, then, overwhelmed, shrug and hope someone powerful sorts it out while we try to get on with our busy lives. The size and scale of the issue seems just too huge to most of us, is the thing. I’m half-joking, but also not: I wanted to show my discovery that doing something for the climate emergency doesn’t mean you have to go full Joan of Arc. By the end of the journey, though, I’m… still in a state of guilt and anxiety, but with a touch less inaction. Regarding the whole climate thing, I started out in a state of guilt, anxiety and total inaction. That dad is me, so it’s from the horses mouth. Josh Appignanesi: It’s a documentary about a worried if somewhat self-absorbed dad who starts to get into climate action despite all the barriers he erects to actually doing anything at all. Daily Info sat down with Appiganesi to get the low down on his new film.ĭaily Info: What's My Extinction all about? My Extinction is the new documentary from director Josh Appignanesi ( The Infidel, Husband), warm, funny look at an inept, self-absorbed dad who finds himself getting into climate activism. Josh Appignanesi, director of My Extinction.Daily Info Menu login / register List event Place ad
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