From blasted landscapes to flawless worlds. Joseph Kosinski is a builder of alternative realities. A graduate of the Columbia School of Architecture and a former aerospace engineering student, he was given the tools to realise a purer vision of our lives, and has explored it in short films, commercials and features. Working for production outfit Anonymous Content in LA. Kosinski made his mark blurring the boundaries between architecture, film and graphics. His work is a seamless combination of the virtual and the real, a kind of photo-surrealism that quotes from the likes of Stanley Kubrick and Albert Einstein.
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In hindsight, his commercial work looks like an extended audition for TRON: Legacy, as if this first feature is a culmination rather than a new beginning. Because Kosinski is a man on the brink of something big. His introduction to the world is the year's most anticipated film, and if the rumours are to be believed there's more, much more, on the horizon. Remakes of The Black Hole and Logan's Run, spec script Archangels and his own original story Oblivion all have Kosinski's name attached. Alongside the likes of Neill Blomkamp Duncan Jones and Gareth Edwards, Kosinski is ensuring that the future of modern science-fiction looks very bright indeed. But right now, his mind is fixed on the global behemoth that is TRON, and it was to talk about his debut feature that we caught up with the director in LA.
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