“Light Study” creates an environment in which one is immersed in the idea of cinema, a world without literal visuals, but in which visuals can be imagined. “Light Study” presents an entire feature film’s averaged light levels as viewed through the shifting brightness of a 100 watt light bulb. What began as a technical piece that translated the mechanics of cinema to somehow extract the purity of the movie experience, slowly revealed itself to say more about the projections we hold in our minds and how cinema already exists within. Ultimately, idealized cinema transposes the search for cinematic purity turned back onto the viewer within the lens that has defined our imagination.