Zoetrope is a haunting and surreal film set in an apocalyptic, decaying world. Based on Franz Kafkaâs âIn the Penal Colonyâ, 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.