Kryptic
Kryptic | Kourtney Roy | CA/GB 2024 | 96 Min
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Kay takes up the trail of cryptozoologist Barb Valentine, who went missing while searching for the legendary Sooka, a Canadian kind of Bigfoot. On her extraordinary travels through the country’s hinterland, she follows clue after clue and gets to know various colorful characters. They help this ambitious debut feature by director Kourtney Roy become an ode to misfits and others who exhibit decidedly creative behavior. Marked by an increasingly somnambulic atmosphere and interspersed with surrealistic excess (slime! tentacles!), Kay’s search for Barb may first and foremost bring her closer to herself. (mk)
Kourtney Roy
is an independent photographer and filmmaker. Her studies in photography at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver and later at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris inspired her to develop her self-described “finicky” aesthetic, which lends itself particularly well to both glossy paper and film. Kourtney’s work has been exhibited widely across the globe, and she has also released several publications about her work. Having made award-winning short films like the experimental Morning, Vegas and Slice of Heaven, she recently completed her time-looping creature-feature Kryptic, which premiered at the 2024 SXSW.
is an independent photographer and filmmaker. Her studies in photography at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver and later at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris inspired her to develop her self-described “finicky” aesthetic, which lends itself particularly well to both glossy paper and film. Kourtney’s work has been exhibited widely across the globe, and she has also released several publications about her work. Having made award-winning short films like the experimental Morning, Vegas and Slice of Heaven, she recently completed her time-looping creature-feature Kryptic, which premiered at the 2024 SXSW.
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