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The "Year Project"

The "Year Project" is a 12
part film series set in Wisconsin based on the months of the year.

"Wisconsin's a special place"

         
    - Brett Favre

The "Year Project" is a 12 part series of films set in the same small town in Wisconsin, each inspired by the months of the year written & directed by Nathan Deming. 

Inspired by the works of Mike Leigh and Sufjan Stevens, as well as Kieslowski's 10-part Dekalog and Honore de Balzac's novel series La Comédie Humaine, Nathan hopes to tell an interweaving series of stories that explore multiple strata of society through different perspectives and experiences all with the common backdrop of one town, Wisconsin, and the unifying elements of shared life we all have together: time, country, politics, culture, capitalism, globalism, religion, family and individual personality...

This is an ambitious and on-going project that is expected to happen in and around the rest of his career, going in sequential order - March is up next.



 

Leo Purman Nathan Deming

Leo Purman and Nathan Deming on the "set" of February




 

FILMS




 

JANUARY
(2023)
24 minutes


An aging church volunteer struggles to keep up with a last minute "shotgun wedding" with a very pregnant teenaged bride.





 

FEBRUARY
(2024)
50 minutes


A recent immigrant struggles to fit into his new home in Wisconsin until discovering ice fishing.





 

March Concept Art

MARCH
Upcoming


Coming soon!





 

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