In 2015, publisher and graphic artist Franco Maria Ricci brought his lifelong vision to life by creating a seven-hectare park featuring a labyrinth made up of more than 200,000 bamboo plants. This extraordinary location in Fontanellato, just outside Parma, has become the home of LOST Music Festival.
The festival brings together artists from all over the world and across a wide range of genres. Despite their different musical backgrounds, they all share one thing in common: bringing the mystical, esoteric and unknown spirit of this remarkable space to life through sound. From live bands pouring raw emotion into their performance to DJ sets flirting with the sunbeams filtering through the bamboo, and from delicate harp melodies to immersive ambient soundscapes drifting through nature, every performance feels perfectly at home in the labyrinth.
LOST Music Festival is unlike any other. Not only because of its carefully curated line-up, but because of the way that line-up is experienced. With four stages hidden throughout the labyrinth and only one hosting performances at any given moment, the festival takes visitors on a carefully orchestrated journey. Together, everyone moves from stage to stage, letting LOST decide when it is time to dance, when to slow down and reconnect with nature, and when to stand still as live music stirs something deeper.
Clean was there to experience it all, documenting the festival entirely on analogue film. No filters, no heavy editing and no perfectly polished images. Just raw, honest moments that capture the atmosphere exactly as we experienced it, inviting you to step inside the labyrinth and get lost with us.
