Cryptozoo

Synopsis

Cryptozoo is a hand drawn, gritty and fantastical parable about society versus the individual. A zoo that rescues mythological creatures in psychedelic 1960s San Francisco races the U.S. Military to find and save a Baku, a Japanese dream-eating cryptid, to prevent the military from using the Baku to eat the dreams of the counterculture and suppress the anti-Vietnam War movement.

Director:
Dash Shaw
Studio:
Mongrel Media
Producer(s):
Tyler Davidson, Kyle Martin, Jane Samborski, Bill Way
Cast:
Lake Bell, Michael Cera, Zoe Kazan, Louisa Krause, Angeliki Papoulia, Thomas Jay Ryan, Peter Stormare, Grace Zabriskie
Writer(s):
Dash Shaw