45 Ghosts is an open-source digital archive dedicated to the preservation of analog video ephemera from the turn of the millennium (1985–2005). Functioning as the primary research library for the studio of Bo Lee, the project catalogs the analog sediment of the pre-digital era—from home movies and failed audition tapes to commercial outtakes and bootleg broadcasts.

The archive is organized around the Aesthetics of the Copy. Whether documenting a simulacrum of a Western hamburger in a 1990s Korean rest stop, or the performative optimism of a forgotten casting tape, the collection investigates the gap between the "American Dream" and the degrading magnetic media used to record it.

We do not restore the footage to perfection. The tracking errors, audio hiss, and color shifts are preserved as essential data. In this archive, the "glitch" is not an error; it is the patina of the image—a physical record of time, entropy, and survival.