Guided by Jean Baudrillard’s notion that reality is a construct and the world has disappeared behind its own representation, The Lost Object focuses on the objects located in a film studio set and the film crew who film them. The absence of diegetic sound, the intentionally odd soundtrack as well as the use of extremely slow camera movements (slowed down even more in editing), make the set itself and reality of the shooting process (fictionalized by being present in the film) appear equally strange, distant and artificial. Hence, Sebastian Diaz Morales’ work reflects both on its own fictionality and on that of the world beyond it. The viewer is left with the challenge to make sense of the glass cubes recurring in the film. (Ioana Florescu, BIEFF 2018)
