ASF Productions — Film Production Company of Hamilton Sterling
Our most recent films
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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.
Please visit the film’s website to view the trailer and purchase tickets, or go directly to the film here at watch.eventive.org and enter the title in the search window.
Running time: 56 minutes
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The personal becomes universal. A history of America through the story of an immigrant, working-class family that lives through the horrors of the 20th century and raises a son who honors them. This personal, social, and environmental film is told with image, music, and sound by filmmaker and sound designer Hamilton Sterling and renowned jazz guitarist and composer Ralph Towner.
And So Farewell was partially filmed in the small town of Springdale, Pennsylvania, where Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring, was born.
A screening of the film at the Kongsberg Jazz/Film Festival in Norway took place July 7th, 2022 at the Krona Kino movie theater. Here is a link to the festival.
Please visit the film’s website to view the trailer and purchase tickets, or go directly to the film here at watch.eventive.org and enter the title in the search window.
Running time: 82 minutes
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During the militarism of the Gulf War, a demented capitalist and a diabolical priest entice a naïve young man into exploiting an innocent in this dark satire of the American Dream.
This independent film captures the rising ideology of the American far-right.
Begun in 1991 and completed in 1996, Faith of Our Fathers (1997) was the recipient of an AFI/NEA filmmaker grant. The film played at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival, The Cinequest Film Festival (where it was nominated for a Maverick Spirit Award), and the New York Anthology Film Archives.
Please visit the film’s website to view the trailer and purchase tickets here at Vimeo on Demand.
Running time: 74 minutes
Upcoming Films in Development
The Midnight Day - completed script and musical score
a 17th century historical drama
feature film
“How narrowly confined is our daytime here.
You were and saw and wondered, and darkness falls;
And some there are whose vision outflies their time."
— Hölderlin
Hamilton Sterling
Hamilton Sterling is a filmmaker, sound designer, and musician. He wrote and directed Absent Now the Dead, a story of the reign of demagogues, and the personal/historical documentary, And So Farewell, with music by renowned jazz guitarist and composer Ralph Towner. Hamilton was the recipient of an AFI/NEA filmmaker grant for his dark comedy Faith of Our Fathers (1997). His sound work includes sound design and sound editing on five Terrence Malick films, including Voyage of Time, and James Mangold’s Logan, and Academy Award Sound Editing winners Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight, and Peter Weir’s Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. Hamilton has worked for Christopher Guest, Paul Thomas Anderson, Andrew Dominik, Barbet Schroeder, John Waters, and Steven Spielberg and has won four Motion Picture Sound Editors awards. Hamilton also created and released Migration, a soundscape album with Grammy-Award winning composer and bassist Jimmy Haslip, as well as a solo bass album, Rise and Fall. He is at work on a new film, The Midnight Day.
Hamilton is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.