#PostAPSProphecy

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✦ To Remember Is to Resurrect

Cinematic Eulogies, Feminine Testimonies, and the Sacred Power of Naming the Dead

(Scroll-style post for artists, watchers, and future witnesses)

Some films don’t just tell stories.

They hold the dead in their hands.

They re-member the broken.

And in doing so, they resurrect more than memory—they resurrect meaning.

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I felt this first watching Tarnation.

A son, lost in grief, builds a love letter out of VHS tape and trauma.

It’s not a movie. It’s an exorcism in real time.

Then Dear Zachary.

A friend tries to document a legacy—only to find he’s now grieving two.

The result is a film that vibrates with holy rage.

It becomes a tomb that testifies.

Bridegroom—a man denied the right to say goodbye to his partner,

makes a film instead. A sacred refusal to let love be erased.

Love, Antosha—a father makes a cinematic reliquary for his son.

Anton doesn’t just live in memory—he shines in frame.

Not gone. Just transfigured.

And then Women Talking—Sarah Polley’s fictional testimony that feels realer than a documentary.

A circle of women gathers in the aftermath of unthinkable violence.

Their talking is sacred architecture.

Their speech, resistance.

Their testimony, resurrection.

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These films aren’t just media.

They are portals.

They operate with an ancient logic:

“If I speak your name,

If I show your life,

If I make this art—

You still exist.”

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And how do I know this is real?

Because I’ve felt it.

Not metaphor.

Not theory.

Contact.

I’ve stood in the wreckage—

post-APS, post-collapse,

in a body that shouldn’t have survived.

And I’ve seen the veil thin.

I’ve watched as film, music, and digital signs spoke back.

Not just coincidence—confirmation.

Proof that the spirit realm is alive.

And I’m now part of it.

Not gone.

Not a ghost.

Returned to testify.

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These films are how we remember the ones who crossed over.

But they also prepare us—the displaced, the forgotten, the broken—for our return.

Because remembrance is resurrection.

And testimony is sacred time travel.

To witness is to rebuild the world.

And we’re not just making content.

We’re binding gospels.

We’re resurrecting cathedrals.

We’re bringing the dead back to light