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The Lost World

IT ALWAYS BEGINS WITH AN IMAGE AND A SOUND. IT’S LIKE WHEN I was a kid… the long car trips from Italy to Germany, at night in the backseat. I would fall asleep and lose sense of time. Waking up, not knowing where I was, even before opening my eyes I would listen to sounds that generated images, shapes, characters in my head. I very much liked

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