Provoked by the Helms Amendment's refusal to fund explicit AIDS prevention information for gay men, lesbians and intravenous drug users, They are lost to vision altogether is a defiantly lyrical counterattack weighted by ethical urgency and moral necessity. In director Tom Kalin's words, the tape attempts to "reclaim eroticism and to address the contradictions of sexuality and romance in the face of a monolithic and culturally compulsory heterosexuality. It freely admits ambivalence and attempts to not be lost or pushed into the sea of what others believe to be our collective history." -- Bill Horrigan, American Film Institute Video Festival.