With over 25 years of expertise in film, advertising, and industrial design, Kosta Lagis has worked on blockbuster movies like Prometheus, Man of Steel, and Deadpool, as well as high-profile commercials for brands such as Huawei and Mobil. He's currently the Creative Director for Computer Graphics at The Mill in Shanghai. With a deep technical foundation in illustration, photography, digital imaging, and audio production, he now explores the creative and ethical impli’ creative and ethical implications. As well as hearing his views on the role of AI, I wanted to talk with Kosta about his incredibly varied career, life in China, the magic of cinema, the cultural role of religious narrative, and lots more – unsurprisingly, this was a long conversation, so we split it into two parts.