Absent Now the Dead
The ghost of a soldier from the Trojan War travels through the ruins of the ancient world to a council of tyrants who make war on reason.
Hamilton Sterling
Director
Hamilton Sterling
Writer
The ghost of a soldier from the Trojan War travels through the ruins of the ancient world to a council of tyrants who make war on reason.
"To such heights of evil are men driven by religion." – Lucretius. Set during the militarism of the Gulf War, a capitalist and a diabolical priest entice a naïve young man into exploiting an innocent in this dark and biting satire of the American dream.
An immigrant, working-class family lives through the horrors of the 20th century and raises a son who honors them. This memoir film is told entirely with image, music, and sound by filmmaker and sound designer Hamilton Sterling, guitarist and composer Ralph Towner, and Grammy winning music producer Jimmy Haslip.