Midnight cable service / Channel 00
Strange transmissions recovered after midnight.
Do not adjust your television.
Recovered transmissions
Three signals found. Two frequencies remain unassigned.
Familiar gestures, borrowed memories and human images that become less recognisable the longer they remain on screen.
Home Movie Transmission
A damaged family recording keeps returning to the same room. The faces change. The celebration does not.
Unscheduled surveillance from domestic spaces after dark. The camera keeps watching after everyone has gone.
Unscheduled Surveillance
A night-vision camera enters an empty house. Every corridor suggests that the signal arrived too late.
Architectures without coordinates: corridors, rooms and concrete structures that seem to exist only while recorded.
Spatial Anomaly / Feed 01
A concrete passage refuses to end. The farther the camera advances, the less certain the building becomes.
Clinical Loop / Feed 02
A hospital room remains unchanged while time quietly fails around the patient. No admission record can be found.
This network is still expanding. New tapes will appear here when the signal returns.
About the broadcast
TheLostVideos is an experimental film archive imagined as a forgotten American cable station from the 1980s. Each channel is a self-contained transmission: found footage, damaged memories, empty places and images that were never meant to be broadcast.
Best experienced in darkness, with sound on and all reasonable explanations switched off.
Transmission notes / Rights & privacy
Every channel is an experimental work of fiction. Some transmissions use original footage; others transform archival films through new editing, sound and context. Nothing shown describes real events or makes claims about any person visible in archival material. Those people are not performers in, or participants in, the fictional narrative.
Transmissions in this channel transform archival material through new editing, sound and fictional context. Current source material includes [Home Movies: Fosston, Minnesota] (ca. 1950), uploaded by A/V Geeks and supplied by Internet Archive in association with Prelinger Archives. No endorsement by the archive or the people shown is implied. Prelinger reuse guidance applies together with any terms shown on the source item.
All transmissions in this channel use original footage, sound, concept and editing by TheLostVideos. They are fictional works and do not document real events.
All transmissions in this channel use original footage, sound, concept and editing by TheLostVideos. The locations are transformed into fictional, non-existent spaces through framing, montage and analogue distortion. Future archival sources, if used, will be identified here with their creator, licence and material modifications.
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