Welcome to San Zokyo. Intersecting stories unfold in a fractured cyberpunk city where a young hacker takes on the corporation behind “Meme,” a drug that mines users’ psyches to deliver personalized psychedelic trips—and hyper-targeted ads. As detectives, streamers, pop stars, and hitmen collide in a strange near-future, reality blurs into something unstable, addictive, and darkly absurd.

The latest feature from American filmmaker Tucker Bennett (PLANET HEAVEN) is a lo-fi, high-concept sci-fi comedy that channels internet culture, gamer logic, and algorithmic anxiety into a singular, handcrafted vision. Set in a world that feels both just ahead of and strangely behind our own, In the Glow of Darkness blends humor and unease into a dense, subversive portrait of life inside the feed. Featuring an ensemble cast including Groovin, Lucas Bennett, Carmen Escobar, Phillip Gladkov, Li-Ming Hu, Samantha Dela Cruz, Danny Helms, and Kat Toledo.

“One of a tiny handful I watched a second time—for pure pleasure.” (Eric Allen Hatch, New/Next Film Festival)

“A sprawling, hand-made cyberpunk ensemble film… a truly unique strain of humor.” (Filmmaker Magazine)

Director Tucker Bennett will be in attendance for a post-screening Q&A.

Sunday, April 19
Doors 6:00 pm | Movie 6:30 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.
Tickets HERE

IN THE GLOW OF DARKNESS (Tucker Bennett, 2025 / 80 mins / NR )Intersecting stories unfold in the cyberpunk city of San Zokyo, where a young hacker takes on the corporation behind “Meme,” a drug that mines users’ psyches to deliver personalized psychedelic trips and hyper-targeted ads.

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