Which 2011 film, directed by Panos Cosmatos, is titled Beyond the Black Rainbow rather than Pandora’s Box?

The 2011 film directed by Panos Cosmatos is Beyond the Black Rainbow.

This question distinguishes a modern film title from the many works that directly use Pandora’s Box. Beyond the Black Rainbow is a Canadian science-fiction horror film and Cosmatos’s feature directorial debut. It is known for its deliberately slow pacing, synth-based atmosphere, retro-futurist production design, and visual style influenced by 1970s and 1980s genre cinema.

The title does not retell the Greek myth. Instead, the film creates an original story set around the mysterious Arboria Institute and its isolated inhabitants. Its mythic or symbolic atmosphere can make it appear in discussions of surreal and allegorical cinema, but Pandora’s Box is not its title.

Panos Cosmatos later directed Mandy, released in 2018. That later film is another psychedelic horror work, which is why the two titles are sometimes grouped together when discussing the director’s filmography.