Lost in the Glow travels from a light-drowned city to the dark-sky coast of the South Downs. Framed as a letter from a filmmaker to his two sleeping children, it follows his own journey out of the glow. It is a film about two kinds of disconnection the lit world has quietly deepened, our separation from the night sky, and our separation from one another, and about how both begin to close in genuine darkness, where strangers gather, screens go into pockets, and the Milky Way returns overhead.
Working in documentary’s poetic mode — a tone poem of image, sound and music — it asks what we lose when we lose the dark, and whether the night sky we inherit is still ours to keep.
