18 minutes of Kafka fever dream that'll haunt your soul for weeks.
Zoetrope is a haunting and surreal film set in an apocalyptic, decaying world. Based on Franz Kafka’s “In the Penal Colony”, a man is imprisoned for an unnamed crime and tortured by a nameless sadistic bureaucrat. As the chilling nightmare unfolds, the prisoner peels away the layers of his own metaphysical existence, inching ever closer to his inescapable fate.
Direction
Deaux channels Lynch and Cronenberg in a student film budget.
Practical Effects
Gross, tactile machinery that feels genuinely ancient and wrong.
Sound
Industrial scraping that crawls under your skin permanently.
Director
Charlie Deaux
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