Tonight we feature two films that reflect in different ways on growing old and obsolescent. In his autobiographical essay The Lost Generation, local filmmaker Jack Walsh explores being middle–aged and gay with honesty and openness, baring his fears and revealing intimate moments. Walsh weaves together three narrative threads against a backdrop of home movies, archival material, and landscape footage. One section focuses on his coming of age and coming out in the seventies, when he moved from Philadelphia to San Francisco, met his partner, and became an artist. It was during this period that his father died, and a series of letters to him form another storyline. The third section is set in the present, and celebrates his relationship of twenty–five years while reflecting on aging in the gay community.