(2007 - 2008)

Lost in Light was a videoblog about small gauge filmmaking featuring weekly posts of home movies and creative work by film artists. The project was devoted to preserving the home movie historical record before these films fade from memory – and decay to the point of unintelligibility. Lost in Light’s mission was predicated on the notion that home movies contribute a unique perspective to the visual historical record by capturing everyday, quotidian rituals – birthday parties, family vacations, Christmas mornings – in intimate, personal detail and through the vivid medium of the moving image.

From January 2007 – August 2008, the project sustained itself by offering free, high quality home movie transfers to anyone who inquired, in exchange for allowing us to post excerpts of the movies on the website. Contributors could also choose to make their movies available for creative use by posting the complete films to the Internet Archive, a massive, permanent digital library, under an open, Creative Commons copyright license. The goal with this latter effort was to harness the unique collaborative possibilities of the Internet to make these historical films available to artists, scholars, and educators for additional uses.