Filmmaker Nash Consing is putting the final touches on a feature-length documentary on his return to a hotel where he stayed years before during an exchange semester.
The film, “Missing the Sheep,” which recently concluded a successful Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign, is “an attempt to find meaning in a world that always seems to shift out of reach.”
In the fall of 2022, Consing reunited with a group of international friends he made years prior at the place where they all first met: a run-down back annex of an ancient hotel in a cobblestone-lined town in southern England, formerly known as the Lewes Study Lodge.
“We called it ‘The Grand Hotel,'” he says on his Kickstarter page, adding:
In my return to Lewes, I found myself in a precipice of sorts: I’ve recently quit my first job, one pandemic later alongside a flurry of global shifts in order to reunite with my dearest friends, most who find themselves in similar life situations of their own. All the while, time passes, life goes on, and I find myself reviewing these self-documented memories, both past and present.
The central question of the film will be:
What do you remember when there’s nothing left to forget?
“Missing the Sheep” will be Consing’s attempt at illustrating his various emotions of being a twentysomething-year-old going through major life changes while at the same time living through major global events.
“It’s a film about the self-confrontation of revisiting the world we used to call familiar — whether it be our old versions, former friendships or the places we used to claim home,” he says.
Check out the trailer on Consing’s Kickstarter page as well as his previous work below, a short documentary film “The Fourth World” about growing up in a small Hmong community in Hickory, N.C., U.S.A.
