MANDY

Panos Cosmatos

Panos Cosmatos (Rome, Italy, 1974), son of a Greek movie director and a Swedish experimental artist, spent his early formative years traveling with his family around the globe, including living in Mexico for a year in 1980. He’s been exposed to the stranger and the global interpretations of American pop culture which had a profound and lasting effects on his creative life. Eventually landing in the isolated suburbs of Vancouver Island during the ’80s, Cosmatos was obsessed over the minutiae of heavy metal, fantasy art, science fiction, and horror films, which he still does to this day. After the death of his mother in the late ’90s, he descended into a decade-long vortex of madness and self-destruction. He emerged having made the decision to make a movie, or die trying. A year later, Beyond the Black Rainbow was born.

FILMOGRAFIA

Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010), Mandy (2018).