The lovers explore cyberspace as a way of dealing with separation, loneliness and techno/homophobia. The video is a body substitute, examining the ways in which new technology succeeds and fails as a holding medium for a long distance relationship.

‘Lost in Telespace or The Loneliness of the Long Distance Lover’, is a fantastic sci-fi lovestory. It portrays the couple's real-life separation last year when Colleen returned to Fremantle after meeting South African-born Fanny in London. Using every means of technology at their disposal, including the internet and video-phone link-ups, the couple maintained a distant contact for six months until Fanny gained entry to Australia in January this year.

‘Lost in Telespace’ is their autobiographical retelling of this separation, as well as a response to what the couple see as worldwide technophobia and homo-phobia. Women especially are taught to fear technology, according to Colleen and Fanny, who cite this as one of the many ways males remain in power. The correlation they see between the use of technology to oppress women, and homophobia which marginalises both gay and lesbian people is challenged in the film, but the challenge is not made through lengthy discourse on theory. Instead, we see Colleen at the controls of her spaceship, using all the technology before her to maintain contact with her distant lover.

– Mick Paskos, Fremantle Gazette, October 1995 

Description compiled from materials in the Cinenova paper archive.