Panos Cosmatos

Born in Rome in 1974 to a Greek movie director father and a Swedish experimental artist mother, Cosmatos spent his early formative years traveling all over the globe before settling in Canada. In 1981, the family lived for a year in Mexico where exposure to the strange local interpretations of American pop culture had a profound and lasting effect on his creative life. Growing up in the isolated suburbs of Vancouver Island during the 80s, he obsessed over the… (more)