Revelations: Talking To The Dead

Filmmaker Richard Alwyn has gained unprecedented access to a Spiritualist Church in East London to provide an intimate portrait of people whose worlds have been transformed by a belief in life beyond the grave. This is a poignant film about grief and loss, lifting the lid on a belief system which many are quick to ridicule. In it, Alwyn meets mediums and members of the congregation and explores the different paths which have led them to the church. The film reveals how each person has a different story but all take comfort in their visits to the church. Is their religion a fool's paradise or do spiritualists perhaps have access to a world which most of us prefer not to contemplate: the world of the after life? For spiritualists, the descriptions and messages that the mediums deliver amount to scientific proof of the existence of a spirit world which can and does communicate from beyond the grave. For spiritualists, death is just the start of a new phase.