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Lost in Light is a videoblog about small gauge filmmaking featuring weekly posts of home movies, work by artists, articles by preservationists and film scholars, video tutorials and other film gems.

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Painting with Camera

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This week’s post features “Painting with Camera,” a Super 8 film made by Aaron Valdez around 2000 in Austin, Texas. Transferred by videotaping the film projected on a wall, this piece exploits the flicker inherent in film projection along with graphic explorations of the urban environment […]

Scouts

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My favorite kind of 8mm film is the accidental double exposure. 8mm film comes on small 25′ rolls that are 16mm wide. The camera exposes half of the surface area of the film in the first 25′ run and then the user has to […]