CRYPTOZOO

Wednesday, June 17, 8:00 p.m. | This vibrant and violent animated fantasy feature by comic book artist and filmmaker Dash Shaw follows cryptozookeepers Lauren and Joan through a richly-drawn hallucinatory world as they struggle to track and capture a baku (a legendary dream-eating hybrid creature) supposedly protecting it from competing evil forces. As the search spirals into ever thornier situations, the zookeepers begin to wonder if they should display these rare beasts in the confines of a zoo, or if these mythical creatures should remain hidden and unknown. Set in 1960’s San Francisco, the film mimics paranoid thrillers of that era featuring voice talents Lake Bell, Zoe Kazan, Alex Kapovsky and Michael Cera playing a mix of free-wheeling hippies, radical animal activists, and shadowy government agents. Transgressive and trippy with a dry sense of humor, CRYPTOZOO looks sideways at grand utopian projects and questions altruistic impulses.