The Mosquito Coast
Adapted for a television series by Neil Cross and Tom Bissell, The Mosquito Coast tells the story of a family on the run. Each member of the family has their own motivations and subplots that all act in concert or tension with the family patriarch’s (Justin Theroux) genius, idealism, and history. It was important to capture within the title sequence this sense of interweaving stories and ratcheting tension.
In order to do this we developed this idea of a flexible grid structure contained within a continually collapsing frame. The grid contains multiple streams of imagery that can juxtapose, overlap, and occasionally take over the frame to create a sense of complexity, relationship, and tension as the viewer is nominally carried on a journey from Stockton California to The Mosquito Coast in Central America. All the while the walls are closing in and the frame is tightening until finally disappearing to nothingness in the end.
