Drawn from Homer’s Iliad, Thersites, a soldier from the Trojan war, travels a haunted ancient world to learn the power of remembered history.

Absent Now the Dead is a story of the reign of demagogues. The film was completed before the November 2020 U.S. election and released on the Laemmle Cinema streaming service two days after the January 6th insurrection. Absent Now the Dead was presented at the Rhetoric Society of America Conference in June 2022, with papers given regarding its poetry and anti-demagogic theme.

2024. The arc of history now bends away into the abyss. But art and thought endure. Tyranny does not last forever.